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Thank you, Tim and Lucia, for making our home the most peaceful place on earth, and when it isn’t-even better.
And now a word about the chapters-the titles are all Frank Sinatra songs recorded when my grandparents were young, and my father younger still. Now that they are gone, I find their music a comfort, and even insightful. I remember stories told about places they went, dreams that came true, and some that didn’t. Whenever my family gathered when I was small, I remember the music, and those great Italian boys who delivered it with gusto, whether it was Perry Como, Louis Prima, Tony Be
ett, Dean Martin, Jerry Vale, Al Martino, or the Chairman of the Board himself. Sometimes I wish I could go back and stand next to the record player with the gold mesh sides and the brown leather top as they sang…and swang, but alas, those moments are gone. So this is my way of remembering.About the Author
ADRIANA TRIGIANI is an award-wi
ing playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series and the bestselling novels Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia, The Queen of the Big Time, and Rococo, she has also written and will direct the big-screen version of her first novel, Big Stone Gap. Viola in Reel Life, the first novel in her new a young adult series debuted in September 2009. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.***