NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âĸÂ âThis heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.ââCosmopolitan
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âFunny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place.ââRichmond Times-Dispatch
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It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages.Â
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Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartorisâ honor is tested.