What's the Girl Worth?

by Fitzpatrick, Christina

• ISBN13: 9780060958756
• ISBN10: 0060958758
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-19
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Sipping on "kiddie" cocktails, eight-year-old Catherine plays a game called "What's the Girl Worth?" with her father and the rest of the regulars at the Blue Lagoon bar. That would be Catherine's last memory of her father ... before he abandons her. Catherine -- feisty, hard-edged, and weary of men -- has put herself through Boston University working as a cocktail waitress. Wanting to control her future rather than give in to the fate predetermined by her unresolved issues, she takes a summer internship in Madrid. It is in this glamorous city, with the encouragement of her new friends, that she is swept into the seductive Spanish nightlife -- reveling in the exhilaration, the miraculous thrill, of being young and far from home. But it is also where she eventually confronts her past and the man whom she has missed and forever hoped for -- the father who is as foreign to her as the beautiful, bright world of Spain.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE: SHOOTERS 1
CHAPTER 1: MY OWN ARRIVAL	5	(22)
PART 1: BEFORE MY FATHER ARRIVED
CHAPTER 2: WORK AND THE PARTY	27	(22)
CHAPTER 3: SQUEAKY	49	(12)
CHAPTER 4: MEET ESTEBAN	61	(9)
CHAPTER 5: TRICYCLICLY SPEAKING	70	(13)
CHAPTER 6: THE REST OF JUNE	83	(21)
CHAPTER 7: LENNY	104	(13)
CHAPTER 8: MY MOTHER'S CALL	117	(12)
CHAPTER 9: THE RESURFACING COMPLEX	129	(9)
CHAPTER 10: WHAT MEN CAN OFFER	138	(21)
PART 2: AFTER MY FATHER ARRIVED
CHAPTER 11: TOGETHER AT THE HOLIDAY INN	159	(4)
CHAPTER 12: DOMINOES	163	(24)
CHAPTER 13: THE VOICE OF HARLAN	187	(6)
CHAPTER 14: BORJA	193	(15)
CHAPTER 15: CHURCH AND AFTERWARD	208	(18)
CHAPTER 16: THE BULLFIGHT	226	(12)
CHAPTER 17: HARLAN ONCE AGAIN	238	(12)
CHAPTER 18: MONDAY'S TOUR	250	(15)
CHAPTER 19: WHY HATE GERRY?	265	(9)
CHAPTER 20: THE MONEY IN THE ENVELOPE	274	(13)
CHAPTER 21: THE GIRL BEATEN UP	287	(19)
CHAPTER 22: TRADERS	306	(7)
CHAPTER 23: GETTING TO FELIPE	313	(22)
CHAPTER 24: GETTING AWAY FROM FELIPE	335	(15)
CHAPTER 25: IMPROVEMENT	350	(11)
CHAPTER 26: RAÚL AND HIS MARS BAR	361	(6)
CHAPTER 27: IN DARKNESS	367	(13)
CHAPTER 28: WHAT THE GITANA COULDN'T PREDICT	380	(6)
CHAPTER 29: 8,578,346 MEN	386	(8)
EPILOGUE: AUGUST	394