When she learns that her college sweetheart husband has been seeing another woman, Mira Serafinoś 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 sheĺl experience a terrifying but invigorating freedom, and meet someone sheĺl come to love: the new Mira.
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