Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. Her books include the New York Times bestseller
The Shoemaker's Wife; the
Big Stone Gap series;
Very Valentine; Brava, Valentine; Lucia, Lucia; and the bestselling memoir
Don't Sing at the Table, as well as the young adult novels
Viola in Reel Life and
Viola in the Spotlight. She wrote the screenplay for
Big Stone Gap, which she also directed. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
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This book is the third in a trilogy, Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine being the first two. I have read a few other reviews for the Supreme Macaroni Company some negative and some positive. Since this is the only book I read in the trilogy I guess I was not biased as to which one was better. I thought that Valentine and her large family were dysfunctional but so very lovable. Gianluca asks Valentine to marry her and she accepts. What happens next is a wonderful romp through the Roncalli family. Valentine tries to juggle her business as a shoemakeer, her marriage and eventually a child. A poignant story about love, romance, family and loss are told with humor and compassion.
These paragraphs at the end of the book really struck me as what everyone should want from marriage and life:
"Any happiness we enjoy - any feelings of security and this newfound treasure, our solidarity as a family, all of this and so much more - is because of him. My Gianluca. "What I remember is not what we ate for dinner, or what we were wearing, but what was said - the conversations, the words, the intent and the meaning. These make life full, and the memory of them will carry me through the rest of my life."
I really enjoyed this novel of family and love and highly recommend it.
I received this book for review and was not monetarily compensated for my review.