Download or read book Grace Period written by Kelly J. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baker finished her PhD and imagined she would end up on the tenure-track, but the career she'd trained for was no longer sustainable. GRACE PERIOD contains the essays she wrote to make sense of how her career went awry. She documents her transition out of academia and the rebuilding of a life beyond what she had prepared for.