Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe
By Jennie Shortridge
(NAL Trade, Paperback, 9780451223883, 400pp.)
Publication Date: May 2008
Categories: Family Life
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"An accomplished and superior novelist" (Statesman Journal) delivers a bittersweet book about a woman'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 Serafino's perfect world is shattered and she wants no one, least of all her big Italian family, to know. She heads north--with no destination and little money-- 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 she'll experience a terrifying but invigorating freedom, and meet someone she'll come to love: the new Mira.
Jennie Shortridge juggles her time between writing novels and working in the community to foster literacy.
[A] wry and funny portrait.
Diana Loevy, author of The Book
Smart, funny, and endearing
one terrific read!
Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
Flawless storytelling make[s] this a book to remember.
Karen White, author of The Memory of Water
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