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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
Earnest
Since: Jan, 2001
25th Aug, 2023 06:19:44 PM
Yes, that was it! Thank you so much!! =D
Hi all, thanks in advance, fingers crossed. This was I think a French comic, but I read it in English. It's set in the modern day, the main character is a mom who works at a big company dealing with orders by phone. The execs and work culture focus on being "nimble, agile", and eventually she faints during a stand up meeting due to burnout / stress.
The rest of her family deals with the problems of modern life. Her husband is worried the international bakery he works at will kill the local wheat with over reliance on fertilizer. Their daughter is blindly following an influencer whom she realizes cares about her fans only as consumers of her beauty products.
The mom slows down her life, learns about resiliency from a botanist neighbor who helps revive the family fern.
The family goes on a vacation to a cabin in the woods, the father and daughter reconnect. It ends happily with the mom returning to work completely rejecting her boss' nimble ideology for one with stronger boundaries, and a slow growth. The husband quits his job and starts a local bakery using non-GMO local wheat that survived the fungus killing the main crops. The daughter changes her Vlog to a self-care, no-filter (as in, no beauty product, self care focused) lifestyle.
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