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A More Aligned You in Just One Lifetime: A Found Family Comedy: One Woman's Journey from Performance Reviews to Lining Up Her Planets
Paperback
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9789199122502
Publisher: Babaloo Publishing
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She lost her job. Then she found herself. Sort of.
At fifty-nine, Henrietta Malone is blindsided when an algorithm replaces her. Overnight the world of performance reviews and all-hands meetings is gone. She leaves the building as Henrietta and re-enters her life as Hexa, landing in a semi-functioning collective where cats supervise, the neighbors keep binders, and soup is practically a love language.
This is a satirical novel about starting over late and sideways. Hexa navigates house politics, a tribunal no one asked for, a fig-tree ceremony, market days that almost pay the rent, and friendships that feel suspiciously like family. There are crystals. There are chakras. There is also rent, and a Brenda Sue with a binder. Bills still exist. So do small rituals, slower mornings, and the stubborn possibility of becoming someone truer. Enough, it turns out, is wider than it sounds.
For readers who like:
- Midlife reinvention with humor and heart
- Found-family chaos under one creaky roof
- Gentle parody of crystals, chakras, and alignment
- A neighbor who files her feelings, cats who file nothing
- Endings that land warm without going saccharine
Begin again today. Results not guaranteed. Sage not included.
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