Miranda always finds the light. Not everything is a sign. And this is what makes Miranda Pear so convincing, so contemporary, so necessary. She possesses a fierce introspective energy and is never short on insight. In these stories, which also include anecdotes, diary entries, parables, conversations, recollections, and runaway narrations, Maralyn Polak's Miranda Pear grows as a girl and a woman in a world gone wrong and pretty weird.
Optimism is a dish best kept fresh.
Being loved is the most important thing for Miranda Pear. But, life has other ideas. Even before leaving for college in the late 1960s, she learns some lessons. When she moves to the city of Dorkadelphia, she meets a guy who wants to be a mortician. But he goes crazy.