When was the last time you had a human angel in your backyard? The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the story of an angel who comes to the house of Pelayo and Elisenda only to bring them grief then fortune. The angel arrives just after their baby is born and Elisenda believes that, "He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain must have knocked him down." Little does the family know what changes are about to happen in their lives and turn their world upside-down.

After the angel arrives he is taken to stay in the chicken coop overnight then in the morning, "Father Gonzaga arrived before seven o'clock, alarmed at the strange news. By that time onlookers less frivolous than those at dawn had already arrived and they were making all...