A More Aligned You in Just One Lifetime: Found Family Comedy: Woman's Journey from Performance Reviews to Lining Up Her Planets

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 heartFound-family chaos under one creaky roofGentle parody of crystals, chakras, and alignmentA neighbor who files her feelings, cats who file nothingEndings that land warm without going saccharineBegin again today. Results not guaranteed. Sage not included.