Can happiness be found at the bottom of a cereal bowl?
A neurodiverse woman working at a cereal bar discovers that sipping her customers’ leftover cereal milk allows her to enter alternate worlds in which she is finally happy in this amazing new work of "healing fiction."
Beverly “Bev” Kitagawa struggles to connect with people around her. For the last decade, her vow to write a novel about the boy she romantically spurned in college—as an apology to him—has given her purpose. But with the ten-year anniversary approaching and little to show for it, Bev is beginning to feel hopeless. The only constant in her life is her job at the local cereal bar, Cows.
Then, one month before her twenty-eighth birthday, she takes a sip of milk from a customer’s bowl and slips into an alternate timeline of her life. There, she has everything that seems impossible in her actual existence. A bond with a customer she’s crushed on from afar. The writing career she’s always dreamed of.
So she tries it again. And again.
As she races to finish writing her real-life book, Bev dives deeper into the milkiverse. Is the next sip the key to the success, acceptance, forgiveness and love she’s spent a decade searching for?
Praise for Kelly Murashige
“A hopeful story.” —Los Angeles Book Review
“A creative spin on grief and loss . . . Unafraid to tackle the tough stuff, Murashige makes sure the reader knows that we are not alone.” —Nichi Bei News
"Immensely thoughtful and poignant . . . A haunting yet heartwarming meditation on what it means to love and lose.” —Lily Braun-Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookstore on Earth
“A beautifully written, heartfelt, and imaginative journey through interconnected layers of grief, hope, love, and friendship.” —Cynthia Hand, New York Times bestselling author of The Lady Janies Series “[A] poignant, beautifully realized work . . . this introspective story handles its weighty topics with care and empathy.” —Kirkus Reviews
Kelly Murashige was born and raised in Hawaiʻi. A lifelong reader, she writes contemporary fiction with fantastical twists rooted in Japanese mythology and culture. Though she can be shy, she loves obsessing over books and video games. You can visit her online at www.kellymurashige.com.
Can happiness be found at the bottom of a cereal bowl?
A neurodiverse woman working at a cereal bar discovers that sipping her customers’ leftover cereal milk allows her to enter alternate worlds in which she is finally happy in this amazing new work of "healing fiction."
Beverly “Bev” Kitagawa struggles to connect with people around her. For the last decade, her vow to write a novel about the boy she romantically spurned in college—as an apology to him—has given her purpose. But with the ten-year anniversary approaching and little to show for it, Bev is beginning to feel hopeless. The only constant in her life is her job at the local cereal bar, Cows.
Then, one month before her twenty-eighth birthday, she takes a sip of milk from a customer’s bowl and slips into an alternate timeline of her life. There, she has everything that seems impossible in her actual existence. A bond with a customer she’s crushed on from afar. The writing career she’s always dreamed of.
So she tries it again. And again.
As she races to finish writing her real-life book, Bev dives deeper into the milkiverse. Is the next sip the key to the success, acceptance, forgiveness and love she’s spent a decade searching for?
Praise
Praise for Kelly Murashige
“A hopeful story.” —Los Angeles Book Review
“A creative spin on grief and loss . . . Unafraid to tackle the tough stuff, Murashige makes sure the reader knows that we are not alone.” —Nichi Bei News
"Immensely thoughtful and poignant . . . A haunting yet heartwarming meditation on what it means to love and lose.” —Lily Braun-Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookstore on Earth
“A beautifully written, heartfelt, and imaginative journey through interconnected layers of grief, hope, love, and friendship.” —Cynthia Hand, New York Times bestselling author of The Lady Janies Series “[A] poignant, beautifully realized work . . . this introspective story handles its weighty topics with care and empathy.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author
Kelly Murashige was born and raised in Hawaiʻi. A lifelong reader, she writes contemporary fiction with fantastical twists rooted in Japanese mythology and culture. Though she can be shy, she loves obsessing over books and video games. You can visit her online at www.kellymurashige.com.
