{"product_id":"baby-boomer-blues-9781778831201","title":"Baby Boomer Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003eZinnia Frisch - born (1947) and bred in Manhattan, the middle daughter of two physicians - is a 22-year-old Music \u0026amp; Art\/CCNY honors graduate in French and English Literature. She's also a free spirit. At a career\/identity crossroads, she decides to roam Europe and discovers Ibiza, Spain. There, she rents a native-style farm house or \u003cem\u003efinca\u003c\/em\u003e, which she shares with about 30 sheep who inhabit the adjoining corral. Like most of the country homes on the island, it is without electricity, plumbing or phone. But to her, it is luxury in a special sense of the word: freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magnificent, exotic environment and crazy, sexy cast of international, eccentric characters make Zinnia happy. She becomes a French and needlework teacher, and is writing and illustrating a children's book on astrology. But she is enchanted by a drug-dealing, jet set lot and falls in with them. Part of the initiation involves smuggling hashish across the Moroccan border and she is busted and spends a month in prison. Eventually, Zinnia marries her Prince Charming, a hashish kingpin, the charismatic yet jaded Dutchman Berend van Bos. Together, they travel back and forth between Tangier, Nassau, Amsterdam, Ibiza and New York City, coordinating a several-ton hashish deal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaby Boomer Blues\u003c\/em\u003e opens and closes with that deal and the way it finally goes down. In the end, everyone does what they have to do, including Zinnia Frisch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel based on fact, the names and dates in \u003cem\u003eBaby Boomer Blues\u003c\/em\u003e have been changed to protect both the innocent and the guilty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Linick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bookside Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781778831201","brand":"Bookside Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41280917176435,"sku":"9.78178E+12","price":22.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_66a6c6ce-cd20-4c8d-84b3-50d38f6b8e1c.jpg?v=1705593428","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/baby-boomer-blues-9781778831201","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}