The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas

Author:Donna Freitas
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429930543
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Dear St. Teresa, I know you are busy because lots of people are in need of grace and everything, but if you could just help me have a little bit of it while I’m around Andy I’d be eternally grateful. Oh, and if you manage to remove any graceful potential from Veronica, Concetta, and Francesca when they’re working at the store, that would be a huge help. No—wait. Forget that. That’s not very nice. I take that last part back. Thank you, St. Teresa, for your attention.

Francesca proceeded to monopolize Andy for almost an hour, introducing him to virtually every canned vegetable and box of vermicelli we sold in the market, while I moved through the checklist, still tongue-tied. When I looked at the clock again, it was almost eight. Time to get outside. Maria would be here any minute. You knew you had a good friend when she’d show up at eight on a Saturday morning to help you bury the family fig trees. And all I needed to quell any angst about the job ahead was to recall my total joy about Andy’s new position at the store, which finally put me in prime position to (a) get Andy Rotellini to really notice me and then (b) get Andy Rotellini to give me my very first, totally amazing, dreamy, passionate kiss! If only I could figure out how to talk in his presence. Maybe when he kissed me this could count as my Miracle Number One on the road to sainthood. It certainly seemed to require a miracle to get yourself kissed—at least at the right time and with the right boy.

“Antonia! Time to get going!” my mother yelled from upstairs.

Perhaps it would help with the kissing if I was beatified (i.e., beautified) by the Vatican first.

Despite my reluctance to leave Francesca alone in the market with Andy, I knew I had to get to work outside. Before my mother could yell my name again, I was in my jacket and out the door to the yard in back, soothed by the knowledge that Andy would be nearby the entire day.

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