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A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside , from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This.What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity?. In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing , but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that came with it.. In no time she finds the challenge and excitement she'd been craving - along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let's face it, the stock options, proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed - until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she'd signed up for.
About the Author
Kristi Coulter holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was the Stephen Farrar Fellow and a Hopwood Award winner. She is a former Ragdale Foundation resident and recipient of a grant from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Her work has appeared in the Awl, Vox, Quartz, Marie Claire, the Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
