In the early 1950s, Lucia Sartori lived with her large Italian family in the Village, where her father and brother ran the beloved Groceria food market. Fortunately, she doesn’t have much of a life, so when her neighbor-a charming, gracious old lady everyone calls Aunt Lu-invites her in for some tea and ends up telling Kit the story of her life, Kit has no good reason to say no. Narrator Kit is a flighty writer of universally rejected plays and an occasional journalist who lives in the Village and is given to mundane reflections on just how wonderful her neighborhood is. More like a big, sloppy wet kiss to Greenwich Village than anything as mundane and unromantic as a novel: Trigiani’s fourth (after Milk Glass Moon, 2002, etc.) starts off in extremely unpromising territory but thankfully doesn’t stick with it for long.
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