{"product_id":"9781504027861","title":"Potatoes Are Cheaper: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Jewish freshman searches for love and money at the University of Minnesota in this raucous satire from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’s the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are broke. The self-declared “best humpers in St. Paul,” they haven’t quite figured out how to make their talents pay. But that’s all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morris’s mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to marry.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The boys arrive on campus armed with a secret weapon: the poetry of Morris’s cousin Crip, a stay-at-home genius who sublimates his sex drive into song. Within a day, Morris is courting Celeste Zimmerman, the frumpy heir to a movie theater franchise. But then an Irish Catholic beauty falls under the spell of Crip’s verse and goes gaga over Morris. She thinks he’s a Jewish-Communist revolutionary poet, and who is he to tell her otherwise? But is it happiness Morris truly wants, or money? And what will Mama Katz say?\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157081604336,"sku":"9781504027861","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504027861_p0.jpg?v=1769897930","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504027861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}