How Starbucks Saved My Life

A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks.

Auteur

Michael Gates Gill was born with all the material advantages that America can offer, and spent his childhood surrounded by famous intellectuals and socially connected people. After 25 years of devoting his life to work, he was suddenly fired he found himself broke, his marriage dissolving, learned he needed a brain operation, and was desperately looking for work to help support his five children. Then he found a job at Starbucks where he still works as a barista.