Don't Sing at the Table

by Trigiani, Adriana

• ISBN13: 9780061958953
• ISBN10: 0061958956
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-04
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

No one ever reads just one of Trigiani's wonderfully quirky tales. Once you pick up the first, you are hooked." --"BookPage" New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers: time-tested, common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman's life, from childhood to the golden years. Seamlessly blending anecdote with life lesson, "Don't Sing at the Table" tells the two vibrant women's real-life stories--how they fell in love, nurtured their marriages, balanced raising children with being savvy businesswomen, and reinvented themselves with each new decade. For readers of "Big Stone Gap," "Very Valentine," "Lucia, Lucia," and "Rococo," this loving memoir is the Trigiani family recipe for chicken soup for the soul

Author Biography

Adriana Trigiani is an award winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. She is the author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series; the bestselling novels Lucia, Lucia; The Queen of the Big Time; Rococo; Very Valentine; Brava, Valentine; and the teen novels Viola in Reel Life and Viola in the Spotlight. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Viola	p. 1
Lucia	p. 27
The Factory Life	p. 49
Storefront Couturier	p. 71
Security	p. 83
La Bella Figura	p. 101
Sex and Marriage	p. 121
The Places You'll Go	p. 139
Children	p. 153
Belief	p. 175
Afterword	p. 191
Acknowledgments	p. 199
Recipes Inspired by Our Table	p. 205
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