Lucia, Lucia : A Novel (Paperback)

from debnance

I absolutely loved this story! With a few minor changes, Lucia could have been my mom. A compelling theme to me in a story is an exploration of what could have been. Lucia, Lucia is a story that touches on that theme. Lucia is the most beautiful girl in Greenwich Village and the only daughter in ...

from LibraryCin

Kit lives by herself in an apartment, with "Aunt Lu", the landlord's "old maid" aunt upstairs. When Kit visits Lucia one day, she hears Lu's story. A story of an Italian-American girl in the 1950s, who wants more than a husband and a family... she wants a career as a seamstress. She loves her job...

from momgee

Lucia Sartori has it all, a loving family, a budding career as a designer in B. Altman's custom department and a wonderful fiance , but in the early 1950's most women couldn't have it all. Especially if she was from a traditional Italian family, then she would be expected to give up her career an...

from elissajanine

Immediately, I *hated* the frame story. The opening character, Kit, is a struggling playwright living in Greenwich Village who ventures up to the apartment of the aged but elegant "Aunt Lu" and has tea while listening to her story, which is the basis of the book. My dislike of the frame only got ...

from SueinCyprus

Kit is a playwright living in New York. She hasn't had much luck so far, and lives in an apartment in a rather dilapidated old building. She is on nodding acquaintance with other residents, but finds herself strangely drawn to an elderly lady known to everyone as Aunt Lu. Kit - somewhat reluctant...