Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap
trilogy and the instant "New York Times" bestseller Lucia, Lucia,
Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small-town life
with Queens of the Big Time. This heartfelt story of the limits and
power of love chronicles the remarkable lives of the Castellucas,
an Italian-American family, over the course of three generations.
In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari
region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass
migration to the promised land of America. They settled in Roseto,
Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new
home-down to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom.
The village's annual celebration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel-or
"the Big Time," as the occasion is called by the young women who
compete to be the pageant's Queen-is the centerpiece of Roseto's
colorful old-world tradition.
The industrious Castellucas farm the land outside Roseto. Nella,
the middle daughter of five, aspires to a genteel life "in town,"
far from the rigors of farm life, which have taken a toll on her
mother and forced her father to take extra work in the slate
quarries to make ends meet. But Nella's dreams of making her own
fortune shift when she meets Renato Lanzara, the son of a prominent
Roseto family. Renato is a worldly, handsome, devil-may-care poet
who has a way with words that makes him irresistible. Their
friendship ignites into a fiery romance that Nella is certain will
lead to marriage. But Nella is not alone in her pursuit: every girl
in town seems to want Renato. When he disappears without
explanation, Nella is left with a shattered heart. Four years
later, Renato's sudden return to Roseto the night before Nella's
wedding to the steadfast Franco Zollerano leaves her and the
Castelluca family shaken. For although Renato has chosen a path
very different from Nella's, they are fated to live and work in
Roseto, where the past hangs over them like a brewing storm.
An epic of small-town life, etched in glorious detail in the
trademark Trigiani style, The Queen of the Big Time is the story of
a determined, passionate woman who can never forget her first love.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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