The last we saw our heroine, she had just finished breakfast with her agent, and was ready to enter the perilous world of the New York scene.
What will she do in the mean big city? Will she swoon with excitement? Will she run into some nefarious characters? Will she be swindled out of her money?
Yes, yes, and no, unless you count the damage done to her credit card at such houses of ill repute such as The Strand and New York Cake.
After a morning of shopping at the aforementioned stores, she heads to lunch with an old friend from her publishing days. After a pleasant couple of hours gossiping, our heroine meets her sister, the fair and lovely Tweedle Twirp, at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. Together they took the “Piecing It Together” tour, which let them “See the homes & garment shop of Jewish families who lived in the tenement during the ‘great wave’ of immigration to America.” Great fodder for our heroine’s next novel—if, that is, she ever finishes revising her current novel!
But the tour only occurred after a trip to Economy Candy and Roni-Sue’s, so our heroine could buy candy of ill-repute for her family (non-kosher chocolate-covered bacon—aka “Pig Candy”—for her hubby and candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars for her most-definitely underaged children).
After her trip to the Lower East Side, she and the Tweedle Twirp made their way to the West Village to meet yet another friend for yet more gossip and a bottle of Prosecco. After a leisurely evening, our heroine received a text that her Boston gal pals were a mere fifteen minutes away, so our heroine and her sister rushed frantically back to the apartment.
Will she make it back to the apartment on time? Will she be so fuzzy from the Prosecco to even care if she’s on time? Will her friends get lost on the mean streets of New York? Will she write the next post in the first person? Tune in next time for the answer to all these questions and more….
