The Queen of the Big Time: A Novel (Trigiani, Adriana)

A heartfelt novel of the power of love across three generations of an Italian-American family, from the author of the Big Stone Gap series“[An] epic of small-town life .

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A personal saga of American history and a romance woven together with warmth and good humor.”—The Oregonian In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in coastal Italy migrated to the promised land of America.

They eventually settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, where they re-created every detail of their former lives, including the centerpiece of Roseto’ s colorful old-world tradition: the annual pageant for Our Lady of Mount Caramel— or “the Big Time,” as it’ s called by the young women competing to be its Queen.

The industrious Castellucas farm the land outside Roseto.