Alisha Fernandez Miranda

I received a galley of this book via the publisher (not through LibraryThing), and as a lover of quirky memoirs, I was excited to dive in. The author, Alisha Fernandez Miranda, devoted a year to exploring careers she considered in her younger years, accomplishing this through doing unpaid internships in areas such as theater, hospitality, and the art world even though she was a mother of young children with a successful career. (Was there privilege and nepotism involved in her being able to create her "what if year"? Yes, but she freely admits this.) That her internships coincided with the first year of the COVID pandemic made it all much more challenging, but Miranda has still managed to create a very entertaining book out of the experience. Her observations about both herself and the various worlds she enters are compelling, and I was drawn along on her journey, eager to see how each internship adventure (and each of her challenges in between) turned out. In short, I found this a thoroughly enjoyable read.… (lisätietoja)