Fickle Animals

The Story

Sage Harris has mastered the art of avoidance until a midnight gas station run where she meets a boy on a motorcycle who forces her to look straight at what she’s been running from.

But this isn’t a meet-cute romance. It’s a reckoning. Fickle Animals is a novel about grief that hides in plain sight, the people stubborn enough to find it, and what happens when avoidance stops working.

Set against the quiet devastation of ordinary life, Mika Sterling’s debut asks what it really means to let someone see you and whether that’s something you can choose, or something that chooses you.