Retrieving Angels

Download or read book Retrieving Angels written by Sandra Cimadori and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do you find the perfect boy, the boy all the girls on the radio sing about, the boy who will be better than God?Gina Fontana knows.After surviving a terrifying attack at the age of ten, Gina is haunted by paralyzing fears. Her mother laments that she is ruined. It becomes the big family problem and the big family secret.Gina copes by immersing herself in a dream world filled with the music of The Beatles. She becomes obsessed with Paul McCartney. He becomes her imaginary protector, her shining knight, and the boy who keeps all the bad thoughts away... until the day when a real flesh and blood boy comes along and intrudes on her comfortable fantasy.The stories of Gina and her friends weave together to form a startling tapestry during the Summer of Love.>>>Set in Miami in the 1960s and filled with characters as diverse, exuberant, and colorful as the South Florida landscape, RETRIEVING ANGELS is sometimes poignant, sometimes gritty, irreverent, funny, and sexy.>>>RETRIEVING ANGELS moves as fast as a thunderstorm on a summer afternoon, as fast as that magical night when you first knew love and your whole world changed forever.