Product Description
First People of Back Bay is told by a young boy growing up in the commercial seafood industry on the Gulf of Mexico. If there ever was a smorgasbord of people assimilated in an industry, the Gulf Coast seafood industry was it. The boy?s journey in commercial fishing began when he was about five years old and continued until he finished college. It involved a range of relationships and characters that are described in the chapters of this book. Each character as well as the Gulf Coast area had a profound influence on the storyteller's life. Probably at least ninety percent of the fishermen in those days would have been classified as living in a state of poverty under today's standards. Whatever they got or achieved, they did on their own. The book is based on real-life people and situations; however, it is fiction because the names and some of the situations have been modified for publication.