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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Colleen Hoskins' Crossing in One Piece, after nearly a decade at HarborPoint, senior analyst Cary Valente is whom executives rely on for numbers. Her models shape forecasts, performance reviews, and strategy across the company. When a long-expected promotion stalls during a corporate reorganization, Cary keeps working. At a coworker’s wedding with colleagues and leadership, an unplanned moment puts her in the center of a room filled with the people who influence her career. In the following days, HarborPoint launches the Strategic Performance Initiative, a company-wide effort that studies branch performances through data Cary helped design. As the project moves forward, the analysis begins affecting real employees and entire offices. While continuing to present her findings to senior leadership, Cary begins reconsidering what role she wants to play inside a system where numbers have consequences far beyond the spreadsheet.
Colleen Hoskins’ Crossing in One Piece is a great novel, and the author uses a plethora of brilliant metaphors, with Cary constantly crossing Boston bridges, and her whole “Bridge Plan,” when she begins thinking about how to move into a completely different career path. Cary is an analytical mathlete who completely bucks the traditional stereotypes. It’s not just abstract numbers either, because Cary starts realizing how those metrics affect actual people she knows, which changes how she sees her work. I love Brooke Santos, the best kind of work friend you could have. She checks on Cary after that completely awful wedding speech, pushes her to actually be seen during those initiative meetings, and even helps her rehearse answers before a panel interview with Itera. Well written, empowering, and entertaining, this is women's fiction at its finest. Very highly recommended.
