Staff Pick of the Week!
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Non-Fiction
I read it because of the catchy title and the fact it is soon to be a movie starring Tom Hanks…The story began with a man named Michael in his mid 60’s, he’s lost his 6 figure job that he held for decades, had a affair on his wife that produced one child and a divorce. His kids don’t talk to him and he’s been diagnosed with a slow growing brain tumor…Out of work and almost out of money he stops in for his last indulgence, Starbucks coffee, and that’s where his life will begin to change. He’s offered a job at Starbucks and he takes it. For the first time he begins to see life not from his privileged upbringing and Ivy League degree but from the other side of the tracks. Michael begins to understand it’s not the job that counts it’s how you treat people. It’s also about how we interact with the people we love and slowly the transformation begins. Michael is given another chance to make a difference, mend fences and not be afraid to make changes and take some chances.
Released in September 2007
Barb Craner
Volunteer Coordinator
