Crabs In A Barrel by Byron Harmon

From inside cover:

Byron Harmon, already acclaimed for his two earlier novels, has created an outrageous new story where Gilligan's Island meets Survivor. Fast paced and funny, it's a comic adventure that airs out the truth about how black people feel about themselves, about each other, and about most everyone else.

When a charter yacht hired to ferry party-goers to the Bahamas is shipwrecked on a tiny island, the ten survivors -- all African American, except the ship's white captain -- are left with the usual castaway struggles:  to find food and shelter, and to figure out how to get back home. But tensions flare immediately due to the social differences that separate the group. While figuring out how to survive on the island, the castaways -- who include a beautiful waitress/med student, a wealthy lawyer, a struggling comic, a Brooklyn thug, a Black Muslim and his devout Christian companion, and two gold-digging cousins -- immediately square off and start firing about their differences, their grievances, and their opinions in exchanges that are as funny as they are explosive.

In Crabs In A Barrel, Harmon has written a breezy, no-holds-barred comedy with a sharp edge. It will make you laugh, and it will make you think, but most of all it will make you want to keep turning pages.

Byron Harmon is the author of two earlier novels, All The Women I've Loved (2002) and Mistakes Men Make (2005). The winner of five Emmys for his work as a broadcast journalist, he is the executive producer for the WCBS Early Morning News in New York City.

Crabs In A Barrel
by Byron Harmon

ISBN: 1932841210
ISBN-13: 9781932841213
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Publication Date: 2006
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Book Type: New