Still Needs Work: A Novel

Marianne gets the call while attending a conference in San Francisco: laid off, department dissolved. Two days later, she's back home in the dicey Kansas City neighborhood she moved to after a reversal of fortune two years ago. After all this time rebuilding her life, it's all collapsed.

The daily grind is just that-a grind. Until it isn't, until it's gone and taken health insurance, retirement contributions, and the currency to buy food and shelter, never mind the free coffee at the office,...