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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Umbrella Maker's Guide to the Multiverse
A Novel of Rain, Repair, and Rebuilding
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36589628
EAN: 9798190002188
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 20.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 31.50
Beschreibung
She spent four years turning other people's burnout into a defensible number. Then the algorithm turned on her. Elara Voss is fired by an automated screen with twenty minutes to clear her desk - no explanation, no appeal, just a countdown clock and a badge that goes from green to red. In the panic that follows, she stumbles onto a hidden underground platform and boards a train she was never issued a ticket for. It hauls scrap metal. And burnt-out workers. Straight into Oakhaven. Oakhaven runs on bread, brass, and a stubborn refusal to be optimized. There's no dashboard here, no KPI for a properly forged umbrella rib, no metric for bread that rises on its own schedule. Elara has no trade goods, no ticket home, and absolutely no idea how to survive in a town that measures everything by feel instead of by number. So she starts sorting gears. Then kneading dough. Then learning to read the color of hot steel the way she used to read a spreadsheet. When a five-day acid storm tears open the boundary between gentle, cobblestoned Oakhaven and the hyper-efficient city she fled, the only thing standing between the town and collapse is one stubborn umbrella-maker's workshop - and a data analyst who has to learn, blister by blister, that some things only get fixed with your hands. She has a ticket home in her pocket. She's not sure she wants it anymore. Perfect for readers who love: Cozy fantasy with real emotional stakes, not just comfort. Found-family small towns full of stubborn, lovable craftspeople. Burnout-to-belonging arcs without a forced romance. Gentle portal fantasy in the spirit of slow, healing world-building. Wry, deadpan humor instead of saccharine sweetness. The Umbrella Maker's Guide to the Multiverse. is Book One of The Oakhaven Waystation - a five-book series about learning to rest without losing yourself. Step off the train. Oakhaven is waiting.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- The Pelican Atelier
- Mara Ellison
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 124