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The View From Lake Como : A Novel.
Jess Baratta is not living the life of her dreams, so she decides to take fate into her hands and escapes to her ancestral home, Carrara, Italy. From Tuscany to Milan, to the shores of Lake Como, Jess begins to carve a place for herself in this world. But as she uncovers the truth about her family history, it will change the course of her life and those she loves the most forever.
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- ISBN: 9780593183359
- Physical Description: 416 pages ; 2 x 15 cm
- Publisher: Canada : Penguin Publishing Group, 2025.
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| Subject: | FICTION / Family Life / General FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Women |
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After a painful divorce and family upheaval in working-class Lake Como, New Jersey, draftswoman Jess Capodimonte Baratta flees to Carrara, Italy, where artistic ambition, and new relationships reshape her understanding of love, loyalty, and personal fulfillment. - Baker & Taylor
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone, "a big-hearted writer who tells big stories" (Jeanette Walls) comes a story of love, second chances, and making your own fate"-- - Penguin Putnam
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, a âdazzlingâ storyteller (Washington Post), and a âcomedy writer with a heart of goldâ (NYT), comes a novel about one womanâs quest to build her own life before itâs too late.
Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life of her dreams. Not even close.
In blue-collar Lake Como, New Jersey, family comes first. Recently divorced from Bobby Bilancia, âthe perfect husband," Jess moves into her parentsâ basement to hide and heal. Jess is the overlooked daughter, who dutifully takes care of her parents, cooks Sunday dinner, and puts herself last. Despite her role as the family handmaiden, Jess is also a talented draftswoman in the marble business run by her dapper uncle Louie, who believes she can do anything (once she invests in a better wardrobe).
When the Capodimonte and Baratta families endure an unexpected loss, the shock unearths long-buried secrets that will force Jess to question her loyalty to those she trusted. Fueled by her lost dreams, Jess takes fate into her own hands and escapes to her ancestral home, Carrara, Italy.
From the shadows of the majestic marble-capped mountains of Tuscany, to the glittering streets of Milan, and on the shores of enchanting Lake Como (the other one), Jess begins to carve a place in this new/old world. When she meets Angelo Strazza, a passionate artist who works in gold, she discovers her own skills are priceless. But as Jess uncovers the truth about her family history, it will change the course of her life and those she loves the most forever. In love and work, in art and soul, Jess will need every tool she has mastered to reinvent her life.
Fed by the authorâs cherished Italian roots comes a bighearted, hilarious novel of the moment: the story of one womanâs determination to live a creative life that matters, with enough room left over for love. With a one-way ticket to Italy, Jess is determined to write a new story on her own terms--this time, in stone.
