A story of finding oneself across cultures and continents

Joey White

Spaventa, Lou

Literature & Fiction

Spaventa Publishing

Ella Winters is a teenage prostitute hooked on methamphetamine. Her pimp, Jimmy Diaz, is a street punk, trying to make it in New York City. Johnny Russo is the social worker whose cases include that of Ella Winters, and who provokes Jimmy Diaz into rash action. This unhappy triangle disentangles itself as Ella, Jimmy and Johnny grow into different people by overcoming obstacles in their paths and building relationships that remove the bitterness and rootlessness of their early adult years.

A Woman in New York

Santa Barbara, California is a beautiful coastal city of around 100,000 nestled between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Its Spanish colonial heritage is marked by white buildings with red tiled roofs. Most people count themselves lucky to live here. But there are those whose luck has run out. They are the homeless of contemporary society: the war veterans with PTSD, the runaways from abusive relationships, the addicted and the discarded. For many of them, Santa Barbara is a last stop on a long disheartening journey. Yet, these homeless are above all individuals with full, complex life histories. This collection of stories imagines six of them.

Last Stop Paradise: six short stories of the homeless in Santa Barbara

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Joey White

A Woman in New York

Last Stop Paradise: six short stories of the homeless in Santa Barbara