Seven volumes · the layoff consultancy
Soft Landing
Seven volumes following the consultants of Holloway & Grace, a firm hired to manage the human cost of American capitalism — each book a different consultant, a different setting, the same eleven-minute conversation.
Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional. The distance is the point.
- I
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The ScriptA layoff consultant works a Trappist monastery creamery — the first conversation, exactly by the book.
- II
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The ReturnA veteran consultant decommissions the nuclear plant where he once worked — severance from the other side of the table.
- III
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CompetenceA junior consultant's brilliance is the trap, under the winter canvas of a failing circus.
- IV
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The MassA layoff at sea — an ensemble crossing the Atlantic, processed together as one wave.
- V
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InversionThe target who becomes the recruit — a fintech casualty crosses over to the firm that cut him.
- VI
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The FirmLeadership at the bottom of the world — a founder's reckoning at an Antarctic station.
- VII
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The ReckoningAn alumni gathering at a former consultant's funeral — the firm's own ending, told by the people it made.
Volume titles are held until each book’s release. For the full Working-Life overview, see The Working-Life Novels.
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