Having a grandfather who was full bloodied Italian intrigued me to choose Adriana Trigiani's
Lucia, Lucia for my Historical Fiction selection. I've always felt my passion has come from the Italian's and after reading this, I'm not surprised at all that my family had similar traits, characteristics and issues. Lucia Sartori is a career girl in the 1950's at B. Altman's department store on Fifth Avenue. Lucia is beautiful, talented, highly protected by her 4 older brothers, but she is also stubborn, brave and loyal. After breaking off an engagement with her fiance because she isn't willing to quit her job in the fashion world and be his mother's "slave," she discovers she is cursed. Can Lucia break the spell placed on her by her uncle's wife or is she destined to be miserable forever?
This book is a quick-fun, easy read & exquisite, especially for a girl who has ...
"Rigatoni Roots!"
Title Read Alikes ...
Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff ... this title has the same flair with fashion/clothing & family relationships.
My Seduction by Connie Brockway ... discusses "duty" like Lucia, Lucia
More than Memory by Dorothy Garlock ... historical elements of the "50's"
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