{"product_id":"9781439190241","title":"Brooklyn Story","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerfectly evoking the sights and sounds of the summer of 1978 in Brooklyn, Suzanne Corso makes an acclaimed fiction debut with this powerful coming-of-age tale, told from an adult perspective, of family,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ebest friends, first loves, and big dreams waiting to come true. . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamantha Bonti is fifteen years old, half Jewish and half Italian, and hesitantly edging toward pure Brooklyn. She lives in Bensonhurst with her mother, Joan, a woman poisoned with cynicism and shackled by addictions; and with her Grandma Ruth, Samantha’s loudest and most opinionated source of encouragement. As flawed as they are, they are family. And this is home—a tight-knit community of ancestors and traditions, of controlling mobsters, compliant wives, and charismatic young guys willing to engage in anything illegal to get a shot at playing with the big boys. Yet Samantha has something that even her most simpatico girlfriend, Janice Caputo, doesn’t share—a desire to become a writer and to escape their insular, overcrowded little world and the destiny that is assumed for all of them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen comes Tony Kroon. He’s a gorgeous mobster wannabe, a Bensonhurst Adonis whose seductive charms Samantha finds irresistible—even when she knows she’s too smart to fall this deep . . . but Samantha soon finds herself swallowed up by dangerous circumstances that threaten to jeopardize more than her dreams. Grandma Ruth’s advice: Samantha had better write herself out of this story and into a new one, fast.","brand":"Pocket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125151809776,"sku":"9781439190241","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439190241_p0.jpg?v=1763757382","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439190241","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}