Gimme the money

the long version

"The streetwise, sexually liberated Gin has had three years to learn to love New York. Now, besieged by financial troubles and the need to obtain a green card she is forced to take drastic measures in order to stay in the city. Within two weeks of meeting Talibe, a legal immigrant from Africa, she is married and living with a Cuban lesbian artist in the East Village. As her paths cross those of countless no-hopers, money-grabbers, fraudsters, friends and lovers in the cultural melting pot that is the Big Apple, she is repeatedly fleeced of whatever fares come her way. To the great pleasure of the reader who likes a happy ending, the sucker gets a break as Gin ends up rich, in more ways than she could ever have hoped for."--BOOK JACKET.