Chapters 1 - 3 Summary

"Saving Francesca" opens with the sad line, "This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed" (Page 1). Normally, Francesca wakes to her mother blasting 70's and 80's retro music to motivate her children in the mornings, but today, something is amiss. Instead of ignoring her mother's annoying early-morning chatter, Francesca gets ready in eerie silence. She attends St. Sebastian School, which used to be an all-boys school until girls were recently allowed in. There are 30 girls to 750 boys. Although it sounds like a dream to some teenage girls, Francesca assures readers that it's horrible. When her mother made the decision to switch Francesca's school from Stella's to St. Sebastian's, she said it would be an ideal identity forming experience for her. The horrible routine of waking up in silence goes on for days. On the second morning, Francesca's father assures her...