An introvert's guide to life and love
(2025)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW FICTION/APPELBAUM,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Forever, 2025
EDITION
First trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION

336 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781538757864, 1538757869 :, 1538757869, 9781538757864
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Mallory Rosen takes her remote tech job seriously. She values routine with predictability and minimum contact with others. So the last thing she wants are any surprises that force her to leave her comfortable Seattle apartment. Surprises like inheriting her late grandmother's seaside cottage in Florida...with the requirement that she keeps her newly widowed grandfather company. With no vacation days left, Mal will have to quickly check on her grandfather, sell the cottage, and return to her structured life before her boss even knows she left. But when she gets to Gramp's new independent living community, it's not so simple. The cottage needs expensive maintenance fixes with a much too charming property manager. Her grandfather constantly interrupts her Zoom meetings. The WiFi drops at the absolute worst times. It all feels too much like déjà vu--the kind that reminds her of when she was fired from her last remote job and was forced to live with her parents. But right when she's about to call it quits, she starts finding the unexpected: making friends at the senior citizen yoga, getting to know Gramps as a person (rather than just a stubborn boomer), and exploring the tight-knit small town. It doesn't help that she keeps running into her hot property manager who seems to know everyone. Just when she finally feels alive, connected to others, and like she has a chance at love, she gets the (almost) worst notice ever: All employees must return to the office"--