Review by Booklist Review
After Lorna Lott, sales team leader, accidentally sends her team a message describing each of them in cruel superlatives (e.g. "most likely to microwave fish" and "most punchable face"), she is forced to take a month-long sabbatical at a wellness retreat, where she must attend sessions including a meditation hour she hates and meetings with a counselor, which are held on beanbags for reasons completely unfathomable to her. Begrudgingly, she finally interrogates the feelings she's been holding onto: grief over her mother's recent death and rage over her sister's drug addiction. With the rest of her now-free time, she connects with her eight-year-old neighbor (and his handsome widower dad), and begins visiting people she thinks she wronged in the past to rebuild broken relationships, especially the one she has with herself. Funny and heartwarming, this book will appeal to readers who enjoy fish-out-of-water stories about people who learn how to connect with others to enrich their lives, like Gaily Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017) and Abbi Waxman's The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (2019).
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
