Books
Gillies's memoir, Happens Every Day, is about her leaving New York to follow her first husband to Oberlin College, only to see her marriage suddenly crumble. Happens Every Day was a New York Times bestseller and featured by Starbucks as a nationwide selection for its book program. NPR's Fresh Air selected it as a Top Ten Book of 2009. Her follow-up memoir, A Year and Six Seconds was published in 2011. She is currently working on a young adult novel, Beside Me, due out in 2013.
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