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Lucia, Lucia
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.”—Cosmopolitan
“Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages.
Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris’ honor is tested.
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Reviews
As an Italian woman, this book was so relatable!
By MomMom6*
I absolutely loved this book. I identified very much with Lucia. I read it shortly after a break up, and ironically, the man in her life (antagonist!) strongly resembled the man I had just ended a relationship with. This book opened my eyes and made me realize how much better off I was. Lucia, a seamstress and aspiring fashion designer, is absolutely darling. She stylish, sophisticated, funny & Italian, in New York City. You really can't get much better than that. :)
By LilMissPriss83
Fun story of close knit Italian family!
By Jim Tandy