The novel follows several different characters as they congregate in the parking lot of a clinic where a child prodigy has fallen into a coma.

They each have their own issues, the foster child, the divorcee, and the gas station owner, and all of whom have decided to gather to hold a vigil for the coma patient.

Critical reception for A Million Heavens has been mostly positive and the work has received praise from Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The most profound part of this novel is that it’s satisfying, even without a tangible or dramatic conclusion for the majority of the characters.

"[6] Charles Bock also reviewed the work, criticizing it for having "Too many sentences [that] tap a bit too deeply into New Mexico’s mystical, new-agey chakra, crossing the line from sincere to earnest (“The wolf wanted to believe that every last hope for peace had not expired in him”), or from earnest to precious (“He was a single note and he only wanted to ring”)" while stating that is ultimately "nothing more — or less — than a sweet ride, smooth traveling for both the mind and heart.