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by Brink, Elisabeth, 1956-

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Houghton Mifflin, c2006.

Women graduate students -- Fiction.

Drug addicts -- Services for -- Fiction.

Women -- Drug use -- Fiction.

Halfway houses -- Fiction.

Women seminarians -- Fiction.

281 p. ; 22 cm.

"A wicked satire as well as a rewarding story of self-transformation. Gillian Brandenburg, intensely cerebral, uptight, narcoleptic, and a virgin, is in her final year at Harvard Divinity School when her life takes a sharp U-turn. The faculty deems her thesis topic of spiritual transformation "new-agey" and threatens to cancel her funding. Determined to prove them wrong, she sets out to gather research by taking a job at a halfway house for addicted women. Here she must quickly transform herself from obedient graduate student to hardcore authority figure. The women push every limit she has set, and Gillian finds herself at once repelled by their crass ways and in awe of their gutsy impulsiveness. Ultimately, they inspire her to realize her own true impulses and desires, as well as her need for love, which she has ignored for too long."--Publisher description.

Psychological fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Bildungsromans.

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