Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe

A"An accomplished and superior novelistA" (Statesman Journal) delivers a bittersweet book about a womanA's midlife crisis that asks: How does a good girl know when to finally let herself be bad?

When she learns that her college sweetheart husband has been seeing another woman, Mira SerafinoA's perfect world is shattered and she wants no one, least of all her big Italian family, to know. She heads northA-with no destination and little moneyA- stopping only when her car breaks down in Seattle. She takes a job at the offbeat Coffee Shop at the Center of the Universe, where sheA'll experience a terrifying but invigorating freedom, and meet someone sheA'll come to love: the new Mira.