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Description:
They were still charting in pen when Vanessa left her nursing career to stay home with her profoundly autistic son. Fifteen years later she's thrust back into the workforce due to a family crisis, and everything has changed. As the older new-hire, she must get up-to-speed on technology, all while navigating hot flashes and a much younger colleague that is making her life miserable. Will she win her coworker over and succeed? Or will Vanessa lose her job, and along with it her family's home and health insurance? Those who love novels about Gen X, friendship fiction and/or workplace fiction are in for a treat with this funny, poignant, midlife enemies-to-friends story, which features a happy marriage, and an autistic speller. Vanessa Goes Back to Work is a novel about the sacrifices women make as long-time caregivers to special needs children, and about finding oneself in unexpected territory in midlife. It is a coming of "middle-age" story.
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in.“
Neil Gaiman
The View from the Cheap Seats
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