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    612-822-4611

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Conditional Presence

Conditional Presence

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General Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798248934379
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Blythe Ke has spent eight years at a tech startup, performing inside a structure she didn't control. She is sixty days from filing her green card when the layoff email arrives. The lawyers talk about timelines. HR talks about transitions. Nobody talks about leaving.

The company had renewed her belonging every morning like a subscription. The subscription has been cancelled. She'd always known how to read the room. She'd never had to construct one herself.

Her relationship doesn't survive either. She starts something from scratch. But the question gets bigger than her: what remains when the infrastructure compounds, the people who built on top become optional, and every belonging has been rented?

San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore. She keeps going.

Conditional Presence is a novel for anyone who has ever been recognized, valued, and still conditional. It follows Blythe through the transition no one prepares you for, and toward the question no framework can answer: claiming your own life.

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