Save Your Own

Meet Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg: a virginal narcoleptic atheistic Harvard Divinity School student struggling to finish her Ph.D. thesis. When her fellowship is revoked Gillian must venture outside the walls of academia in search of a new source of income as well as interview subjects for her dissertation. She takes a job at Responsibility House a halfway house for recovering addicts. Here pintsize Gillian is charged with the unlikely task of imposing order on unruly tenants including motorcycle-obsessed Janet impulsive former prostitute Florine and self-righteous Stacy who begin to inspire her to rethink her own dreams and desires.. A delightful read for all those who have ever wished they could be a little more than they are Save Your Own is the perfect self-made Cinderella story.