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Title details for Don't Sing at the Table by Adriana Trigiani - Available

Don't Sing at the Table

Life Lessons from My Grandmothers

by Adriana Trigiani
Adriana Trigiani
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"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 fans of Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia, and Rococo, this loving memoir is the Trigiani family recipe for chicken soup for the soul

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    May 12, 2020

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593290392
      • File size: 171116 KB
      • Duration: 05:56:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Adriana Trigiani draws from personal history in this endearing memoir, which describes her life with her two beloved grandmothers, Spada Bonicelli (Lucy) and Yolanda Perin Trigiani (Viola), and recounts what made them such remarkable twentieth-century women. Trigiani has a straightforward storytelling style that befits the two women as she tells how they managed motherhood and careers and kept tidy homes, always placing family first. Anecdotes reveal how her grandmothers taught Trigiani invaluable life lessons demonstrating strength in the face of adversity while simultaneously providing comfort to the family. The resiliency, humor, and warmth embodied in these women and passed down over generations allows the listener to understand how their warmth and strong values made Trigiani the writer she is today. B.J.P. 2012 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 13, 2010
      Fans of novelist Trigiani will be delighted with this guided tour through the author's family history via her grandmothers, Lucia and Viola. She lovingly details the women's lives and recounts the lessons she's learned while offering a fascinating look at U.S. history from the perspective of her Italian-American forebears. Both Lucia and Viola worked hard from an early age, cooking and cleaning among any number of chores, and parlayed their work ethic and expertise into strong careers. Viola started out as a machine operator and, later, co-owned a mill with her husband, while Lucia worked in a factory and then became a seamstress and storefront couturier. Her grandmothers also took pride in passing along wisdom to others; throughout her life, Trigiani benefited from their guidance regarding everything from marriage to money, creativity to religion. She credits them with telling good stories: "I mimicked their work ethic imagining myself in a factory, layering words like tasks until the work was done. I took away more than life lessons from their stories; I made a career out of it." Here, Trigiani combines family and American history, reflections on lives well-lived, and sound advice to excellent effect, as a legacy to her daughter and a remembrance of two inimitable women.

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