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The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again

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This book shares some wonderful stories about women who took time off from the work force to take care of their children-and made it back. It is somewhat inspirational, but mostly just interesting biographies of vastly different proffessional women and their experiences.

Awful. If you can even get past the first story you will read a book of unrealistic stories that are in no way relatable for most working women/mothers.

The Comeback, is a timely piece on a topic that not a lot is specifically written about: women returning to the career world after taking time off to raise kids. It articulated why women often give up their career by default because of the time demands of their spouse's higher paying job. The stories of the six women who made their "comeback" were varied in what they did and how they came back and although there seemed to be more stories about high-powered women than regular every day parents, it was still encouraging to see that all parents go through the same issues. This is not a "how to" manual--but it is a book I recommend for women going through this stage of life just to inspire the creative process as they make their own comebacks. -Melanie Hamon, [...]