Title: Pink slip
First published: 1999
Description: Looking for a fresh start, Lisa trades her grunt job in New York publishing for a spot in the editorial department of the highly conservative Boorman Pharmaceuticals. To amuse herself, Lisa begins writing - on company time - a novel that pokes fun at corporate life.

Enter her main character - Mr. Eben Strauss, vice president for new product development. A careful man. A man of old-fashioned manners. A man who logically should steer clear of a young woman with a smart mouth, a crazy family, and a wild past. Of course, logic and love rarely go hand in hand. It's bad enough that Lisa and Strauss have to keep their ensuing affair a secret from everyone at work. But what happens when they keep secrets from each other - and tell lies to themselves?
Subjects: AIDS (Disease), Gay men, Children of Holocaust survivors, Fiction, Patients, Italian Americans, Sexual harassment, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Italian americans, fiction, New york (state), fiction, Connecticut, fiction, Aids (disease), fiction, Fiction, romance, general
Places: New Haven (Conn.), Connecticut, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New Haven
LC classification: PS3553.I7 P5 1999