Aspiring playwright Kit Zanetti lucks into the story of a lifetime when she accepts an invitation to tea from her elderly upstairs neighbor Aunt Lu and is treated to the tale of Lu's life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s as a beautiful, independent apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at a chic Fifth Avenue department store.
year: 2004, 2003
call number/section: 1000
subjects: italian american families, fiction, italian american women, department stores, historical fiction, family life, greenwich village (new york, n.y.), fiction, united states, italian americans, women, domestic fiction, love stories, historical fiction, domestic fiction, love stories
Editions
Trigiani, Adriana
Ballantine Books (2004)
Even though she is engaged, fashion designer Lucia Sartori falls in love with a good-looking stranger who promises her a life of luxury, and she almost destroys her Italian family ties.
Schools: 2
Trigiani, Adriana
Random House (2003)
Aspiring playwright Kit Zanetti lucks into the story of a lifetime when she accepts an invitation to tea from her elderly upstairs neighbor Aunt Lu and is treated to the tale of Lu's life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s as a beautiful, independent apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at a chic Fifth Avenue department store.
Schools: 0