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“I Hope This Finds You Well” by Natalie Sue

About Blog Post Jul 19, 2024 by SCLSNJ Staff
“I Hope This Finds You Well” by Natalie Sue Review by Yvonne Selander, collection development librarian Jolene finds joy in her barely tolerable administrative job at Supershops, Inc., by writing how she really feels about her coworkers at the bottom of her emails. She then changes the text to white to make it invisible to their eyes. Until the day she forgets that one crucial step and sends her true feelings to her work nemesis. Cue the visit to HR and mandatory sensitivity training and the monitoring of her emails. The new HR guy seems strangely nice so that part isn’t so bad. But having Big Brother monitoring her emails for certain keywords? You’d think it would be nerve-wracking, but mistakes were made. Now Jolene is Big Brother on steroids as she can read all outgoing and incoming emails and texts throughout the company. She’s even gotten magical access to everyone’s drives. Sure, she was going to tell the HR guy but why? Knowing how strange her coworkers feel about her, prompts Jolene to make some changes and her new inside knowledge is giving her an edge as it becomes clear that layoffs will be coming soon. Will Joelene become the superstar that Supershops needs? Or will she end up tripped up by all her new secret knowledge? Jolene is in what could be a dead-end job and is stuck in a very small life after tragedy in her adolescence caused her to shrink into herself. This happy accident at work causes a ripple effect in her life, opening her up to other humans for the first time in over a decade, and watching her regain her life is wonderful to witness. Sure, things get unbelievably wacky, but you can see how each strange event could actually happen to someone in the circumstances. This is a rare book where the secondary characters are three dimensional but it never feels forced or that there is just too much stuffed into one book. The Persian community, especially her mom, adds depth to Jolene’s backstory as well as shows how much she has missed hiding herself away from the world. You’ll cheer for Jolene as she stumbles her way through the book.   
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