The Queen of the Big Time (Paperback)

from SueinCyprus

This the story of a young Italian American girl called Nella. We first meet her in 1924 when she is fourteen. Nella and her family live on a farm, and she is the middle daughter of five. The book is about her growing up and her adult life. It's primarily a character-based book, based in part on r...

from CatieN

Roseto, Pennsylvania, is a town created by Italian immigrants and is almost an exact replica of the towns they left in Italy. The main character of the book is Nella Casteluca. (I apologizeto the author for any misspellings. I listened to the audio-book so never saw the Italian names in print.) I...

from BookConcierge

3.5 stars Nella Costelucca narrates her story of growing up on a farm in PA but loving school and wanting to be a teacher. However, her father's injury forces her to quit school and go to work at the blouse factory, where she thrives and prospers. Trigiani lets the reader into her characters live...

from pennsylady

Beginning in early 20th-century TQOTBT chronicles the 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 prom...

from CatieN

Roseto, Pennsylvania, is a town created by Italian immigrants and is almost an exact replica of the towns they left in Italy. The main character of the book is Nella Casteluca. (I apologizeto the author for any misspellings. I listened to the audio-book so never saw the Italian names in print.) I...