This Could Hurt: A Novel

 Shirley J.                   Adult Fiction                      Work life, work family loyalty

This Could Hurt: A Novel by Jillian Medoff      400 pages

I loved this book.  It rings so true, the kind of love for your workplace, your work family and the fierce loyalty co-workers will go the distance to protect one another and help one another when that extended family feel is there.   Boss Rosa Guerrero has busted through the glass ceiling and survived.   She sees the foibles in some of her fellows that she supervises good and bad, those workers so dedicated she has to practically force them to go home and stop working to those so blase' apathy dripping off of them seem to care less about much of anything but do come through in a pinch if on their own terms.   She has been mother hen over her brood of employees so long she knows who to lean on and who not to and in her human resources repertoire magically blends the strengths and weaknesses of all to provide a salient crew within the corporation.   Till one day, she starts to topple.   A health crisis occurs and the tough don't just get going, hell, they become a corporate navy seal unit.   This is a wonderful, funny, poignant story of the cavalry really coming through in a crisis told with such hilarity the reader who is in the working world will see themselves and so many of their coworkers here.  It was a joy to read.   I recommend this one to mature teens on up, folks who are in or on their way in to the working world who will get all the inside jokes and realize the workplace types and often very real situations.   Truly a joy to read.