Across the Table: Dancing on Sunday Afternoons

Linda Cardillo

ივნ. 2010 · Harlequin

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For three generations of Dante women, food means love…

From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family and friends. Her daughter Toni tried to create her own life, outside that circle—only to return with her daughter when her marriage failed. Now that Vanessa's nearly grown, Toni must face the bitterness of the past in order to taste the sweetness of the future.

But she can't make such a journey alone. She needs the guidance of a mother, of her family. She needs Rose's recipes for happiness, learned by trial and error over sixty years of marriage. Recipes that are sometimes difficult to follow, but like the perfect risotto al limone, are worth the effort.

An unforgettable story of family and forgiveness, loyalty and love.

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Linda Cardillo grew up in a large extended family that always seemed to find itself around the table of one grandmother or another--in the dining room on winter Sundays and under the grapevines of her city grandmother or under the willow trees of her country grandmother in the summer. It was at those tables that she first heard love stories, of uncles stationed on remote islands during World War II and aunts who followed them, of beloveds who died tragically young or cosmopolitan boyfriends who frequented the best nightclubs in Manhattan. As a little girl, she used to sit under the table in her nana's kitchen, draw pictures with her twenty-four Venus colored pencils and just listen. The Venus pencils soon became pen and ink, and by the time Linda was in high school, the pictures she was drawing were conveyed in words. She kept alive the dream of writing a novel through many careers, as an editor of college textbooks, a business writer, a college and high school teacher of creative writing and English and a fundraiser. After many years and many rewrites, she came to understand the importance of perseverance in the writer's toolkit and was delighted to sell her first Harlequin book. Linda has been married for over twenty years to a German-born scientist. They spent several years living in Germany and love to travel, from the savannahs of Kenya to the moors of Scotland. They now live with their youngest child in a quintessentially New England town that was founded in the seventeenth century and welcome home their older two children for lingering meals around a table that bears a strong resemblance to those of Linda's grandmothers.