{"product_id":"9781450220118","title":"Porgies Are Best: A Fishmonger's Daughter","description":"B.J. Ray is on a hilarious journey with one goal in mind, an interracial marriage. For sixteen years, she has been planning her escape from the South Bronx projects. If she ignores the experiences and opportunities, she may be stuck with project dwelling forever.\u003cbr\u003eShe encounters the challenge of having to ingest salt tablets and collect rocks in one-hundred-degree weather, a prerequisite for interracial dating.\u003cbr\u003eShe also attends Hampton share parties where white folks drink out of paper cups, not Welch's grape jelly jars, and a share consists of a cot in the laundry room every fourth weekend. She finds invited guests to your home demand bottled water, request organic wines, organic foods, and really can't tell the difference about most things in life, not to mention water, foods, and wine.\u003cbr\u003eOne March night, B.J. Ray attends her middle sister's birthday party with her younger sister and they are summoned to pick up the Carvel cake. They don't return until the wee hours of the morning. B.J. Ray meets a man and\u003cbr\u003ediscovers that he is the key to her becoming a highly successful individual.\u003cbr\u003ePorgies Are Best: A Fishmonger's Daughter is a book of vignettes of a young African American, Jewish girl from the projects of the South Bronx, who experiences love, humor, misfortune, compassion, and accomplishment.","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154780438768,"sku":"9781450220118","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450220118_p0.jpg?v=1763833054","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450220118","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}