River of Angels

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>From John Fante's biographer ten stories of blood relations family skeletons random forces</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>and the often-violent folly of love. Set against the double-edged splendors of greater Los </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Angeles from downtown streets to studio soundstages to gated mansions from</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>desert to mountains to sea these are stories of people striving to reckon with the American</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>hands they've been dealt in the marked-card gamble of their lives. </span></p><p></p><ul><li>A stoner son heading off to fight in a war drives his mother to see the eye doctor.</li><li>A fourth-grade Catholic-school teacher unattached meets her match made in hell. </li><li>Desperado artist-lovers flee the scenes of their crimes.</li><li>A stranger knocks at the front door...</li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Mothers and fathers sons and daughters husbands wives and roving agents of chaos collide here with sometimes comic often tragic but always lasting effects. In story after story something happens that matters-not least to the reader.</span></p><p></p>