'This is mustard!' He pulled the yellow blossoms off the slender green stalk for me to taste. Decided to hug the area closest to the fall so that he wouldn't see the red inflamed boil side of my leg but Charlie was wily and crisscrossed back and forth in front of me to point out some type of succulent ground cover and tiny yellow wildflowers.

I was so nervous about my breath and memorizing the plants and their corresponding names that at no time did I notice the ingrown hair on my leg the size of a small dog until we began to dig into our ascent. Mint and chocolate geranium were his favorites. It turned out Charlie had his own little herb garden. 'This is white sage,' he said as we made our way to the first of several plateaus, and then told me its Latin name along with the names of about sixteen other neighboring green items. I figured I needed to be utterly myself right away that way I'd find out quick who stuck around. T-shirt, even though my legs were wintry white and unshaven. I was brave enough to pour myself into a pair of jean shorts and a long-sleeved ribbed purple cotton Poor hygiene is just poor manners.Ĭharlie arrived dressed liked a trendy forest ranger in olive khakis with a vintage Boy Scout shirt with a patch that said 420, mirrored police officer sunglasses, and clunky mustard-colored lace-up boots. It felt good to have a no-pressure outing with a nice guy.Īll the same, I chewed three pieces of wintergreen gum. I had called Charlie up that morning and asked him to take a walk in nature with me. We belong to the night, we belongĬharlie and I met in Santa Monica at the mouth of an old fire road, which wound round a massive mountain to an overlook for a Technicolor view of mountains, sky, and sea. 'Close your eyes and try to sleep, close your eyesĪnd try to dream. 'Sinopsis' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. Hailed as 'brilliant' ( Sunday Telegraph Magazine), America the Beautiful is the debut of an unforgettable and unfaltering new voice. In America the Beautiful, Moon Zappa has taken the broken-heart story and given it a twist all her own through the emotional honesty and edginess of America Throne. From a dodgy therapist to a silent retreat, America Throne's 'aha' moment culminates with, 'While we are all busy swimming upstream, the universe is conspiring to take us to something better.' But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falters on the slippery slope of hope: hoping that he will come back, hoping that new sex will erase all evidence of him, and hoping that in nurturing a truce with her dead father she will make peace with all men.Īmerica's trip from self-destruction to wholeness is a romp on the wilder shores of the West Coast. Her career is sprouting, and she is in love - with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. America Throne is living the good life in L.A.

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