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Crabs in a Barrel |
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by Byron Harmon
ISBN: 1932841210
Pub. Date: July 2006
ISBN-13: 9781932841213
Format: Paperback, pp. 272
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Sales Rank: 237,236
List Price: $15.00
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In the tradition of Jill Nelson's Sexual Healing, Crabs in a Barrel is a frank,
no-holds-barred comedy with a sharp satirical edge.
When a yachtful of party-goers headed for the Bahamas are shipwrecked and wash
up on a remote island, the diverse group-most but not all African-Americans,
from a wide range of different backgrounds-are left with the usual survivor
struggles: to find food, shelter themselves, and try to figure out how to get
back to civilization. But in their case, they also have to try not to kill each
other in the effort. The isolation and extreme circumstances combine to
aggravate the social differences that already separate the group, and tensions
rise and flare immediately. Before long, the different castaways-including a
beautiful waitress/med student, a wealthy lawyer, a Brooklyn thug, a Black
Muslim, and two gold-digging cousins-square off and start firing about their
differences, their grievances, and their opinions in exchanges that are as
funny as they are explosive.
Author Byron Harmon, already acclaimed for his two earlier novels, uses this
Gilligan's Island meets Survivor set-up to create a story that airs out the
truth about how black people feel about themselves, each other, and most
everyone else in this breakout novel sure to bring him even greater commercial
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| Byron Harmon is the author of two
earlier novels, All The Women I've Loved (Pocket, 2002) and Mistakes Men Make
(Pocket, 2005). He is the executive producer for the WCBS TV Early Morning News
in New York City.
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