Download or read book The Sunshine Machine written by Marc M Minnick and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lukas Helitski, an idealistic young man leaves his boyhood home in Upstate New York to search for adventure and riches in the land of his dreams.CALIFORNIA!But in his quixotic quest he discovers that along with California sunshine comes monotony and boredom until....He meets a mysterious girl of many names.Francesca, a young woman of immeasurable beauty resides with a single mother, and an ancient Native American woman, known only as Abuela, decides to search for the identity and birthplace of the father she has never known. She discovers secrets about her heritage that change her views as to she is and why she must delve deeper into her family's history. Her life changes in unexpected ways until she meets a naïve young man, Lukas. Ali-Aziz Mizraahi.an Iranian flight instructor with a propensity for American blond women meets Lukas by answering a newspaper "wanted" advertisement. Although they differ on cultural and religious ideology, they become fast friends. Ali's Guardians of Friendship oath proves to be a lifesaving fact.LOVE...SEX...DECEIT....GREED....WRATH...MURDER....And ultimately, REDEMPTION, set the scenes that define THE SUNSHINE MACHINE.In addition to Lukas, Francesca and Ali, a cast of colorful miscreants, sympathetic antagonists and flawed protagonists populate the vivid Southern and Baja California locales of the sixties and seventies in THE SUNSHINE MACHINE. Chapters of magical realism, historic rock and rock trivia, and mind-altering occurrences all play a part in transporting the reader to a time when Flower Power was the new cultural revolution and Drugs, Sex and Rock and Roll were its mantra.