Save Your Own
Elisabeth Brink
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$17.99
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publish Date
June 01, 2007
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.12 X 7.98 X 0.76 inches | 0.74 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780618871933
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About the Author
ELISABETH BRINK worked in publishing, counseling, and high-tech marketing before earning a Ph.D. in American literature. Since then she has taught writing and literature at Harvard, Tufts, and Boston College. Her fiction has garnered her fellowships in Prague and St. Petersburg, and her stories were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the late Andre Dubus. She lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Reviews
"This inventive debut doesn't imitate the traditional British academic comedy but, rather, forges an identity all its own." Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg is a romantic heroine unlike any other...Save Your Own is a keeper." USA Today "Elisabeth Brink hooks the reader...and we start to pull for [Gillian] in this colorful 'ugly duckling to swan' story." Boston Globe "A smashing debut -- hilarious, smart, and charming...One of the most original characters I've encountered in recent fiction..."--Stephen McCauley, author of Object of My Affection and The Man of the House. "Sly, inventive, filled with irony and laughs and truth." -Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales and High-Wire Moon. "A brutally honest and truly funny first novel by a writer of immense talent." -Peter Orner, author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikonga "Ultra-funny, super-sexy, and wickedly smart, with a philosophical heart that beats with furious, mystical passion." -Terri Giuliano Long, author of In Leah's Wake --
