Author: Adriana
Trigiani
Genre: Non-fiction, memior
Summary: From Amazon ;
"No one ever reads just one of Trigiani’s wonderfully quirky
tales. Once you pick up the first, you are hooked.” —BookPage
New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares
a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers:
time-tested, common sense advice on the most important aspects of a
woman’s life, from childhood to the golden years. Seamlessly
blending anecdote with life lesson, Don’t Sing at the Table
tells the two vibrant women’s real-life stories—how they fell in
love, nurtured their marriages, balanced raising children with being
savvy businesswomen, and reinvented themselves with each new decade.
For readers of Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia, and
Rococo, this loving memoir is the Trigiani family recipe for
chicken soup for the soul
Here is another review I wholeheartedly
agree with:
Fans of Adriana Trigiani's novels will
recognize the women in her non-fiction book- her grandmothers Lucy
and Viola have appeared in many of the characters in her fiction. Not
only does Trigiani do a marvelous job of recounting the fascinating
life stories of these women, she uses their lives to write a primer
for living your own life.
Women like Lucy and Viola are the people who made this country great, and they jump off the pages in this delightful book. They have more than their fair share of troubles, (both of them are widowed), but their sheer will and strength of character will inspire other women to persevere and succeed as they did.
Although she is an Italian immigrant, Lucy moves to Minnesota and takes on the stoic characteristics of American mid westerners. She loses her husband at an early age and raises her three children on her own, all while running her own business. Viola was a pistol, running her own clothing factory, raising her family, entertaining friends in her lovely home, traveling.
Both women had terrific advice for their granddaughter, and the way that Trigiani structures the book, first telling their life stories, then sharing the how living their lives were examples we could all follow today, makes this book so enjoyable.
Women like Lucy and Viola are the people who made this country great, and they jump off the pages in this delightful book. They have more than their fair share of troubles, (both of them are widowed), but their sheer will and strength of character will inspire other women to persevere and succeed as they did.
Although she is an Italian immigrant, Lucy moves to Minnesota and takes on the stoic characteristics of American mid westerners. She loses her husband at an early age and raises her three children on her own, all while running her own business. Viola was a pistol, running her own clothing factory, raising her family, entertaining friends in her lovely home, traveling.
Both women had terrific advice for their granddaughter, and the way that Trigiani structures the book, first telling their life stories, then sharing the how living their lives were examples we could all follow today, makes this book so enjoyable.
Rating: Very good.
Why I Like It: It's
memoirs of her Grandmothers so I could see where she got her ideas
for her book “The Shoemaker's Wife.” The author is a very good
story teller & does a lot of research for her books.
Other:
Read this one since I couldn't find it in audio. Still enjoyed it.
Reviewer: Patsy
