by Pamela Anderson - undifferentiated
First published 1984
Sarah Matthews stares at the classified ads spread across her kitchen table, her coffee growing cold as she circles potential job openings. After five years away from her marketing career to raise her children, she faces a workplace that barely resembles the one she left. Her skills feel outdated, her confidence shaken, and employers seem skeptical of the gap in her resume. Sarah joins a support group of women in similar situations, each wrestling with their own version of starting over. There's Janet, the former nurse whose medical knowledge feels frozen in time, and Michelle, the teacher who left to care for her aging mother. Together they practice interviews, update their wardrobes, and confront the guilt of wanting more than domestic life. As Sarah lands her first interview in years, she discovers that returning to work means more than just finding a job. It means reclaiming the person she was while accepting who she has become. The path back proves both harder and more rewarding than any of them expected.
Genres: fiction, family-life, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
106 pages · Hardcover · Poland St. Pubns