Full name: Lucia, Lucia: A Novel

Author: Adriana Trigiani Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Chick lit, Romance Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780812967791 9780345472441 0812967798 0345472446

It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman's 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. Similar books: The Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani Evergreen by Belva Plain The Ravenscar Dynasty by Barbara Taylor Bradford Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins Smart Women by Judy Blume In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin Miss You by Kate Eberlen The Upstart by Catherine Cookson In the Drink by Kate Christensen Rococo by Adriana Trigiani City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg Put Out the Fires by Maureen Lee Paper Moon by Joe David Brown Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons An Unequal Marriage by Emma Tennant Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins Pegasus by Danielle Steel A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams