OVERLAY resurrected the life of Marlayna Glynn's luckless Las Vegas childhood. ANGELES, an account of her adolescence, continues her journey among the saints and sinners of 1980s Los Angeles. The author seems to satisfy her longing for a permanent family when her marriage to a handsome entrepreneur produces four children in quick succession. But a college decree, home ownership, and a marriage license aren't enough to help her outrun her troubled early beginning. Rejecting the alcoholism that claimed both her mother and her father, she sinks into a troubling depression instead. ANGELES is about realigning the stars by fighting genetics; becoming a mother; moving from victimhood to womanhood. The author unflinchingly begets a self from the unlikeliest of beginnings, and now delivers a sequel illustrating heaven and hell on her continuing flight for self discovery.