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From Adriana Trigiani, the cherished New York Times best-selling writer of The Shoemaker's Better half, comes an exciting epic novel of love, loyalty, and creative imagination - the storyline of Italian American family on the cusp of change. It's 1949, and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity through the postwar boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & American Union Telegraph Office, possessed and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: Business is good, and they are ornamented by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that divided Dominic and his brother, Mike, and their once-close young families sets the stage for a rematch. Amidst the hoopla, the introduction of an immediate telegram from Italy upends the life span of Nicky Castone (Dominic and his wife's orphaned nephew), who lives and works together with his uncle Dom and his family. Nicky decides, at 30, that he needs more - more than simply a job driving a car car number four plus more than his longtime fiancée, Peachy DePino, a bookkeeper, can provide. When he admits to his fiancée that he's been secretly moonlighting at the local Shakespeare movie theater company, Nicky discovers himself drawn to the stage, its vibrant players, and the motivated Calla Borelli, who inherited the organization from her daddy, Nicky must select from the conventional life his family expects of him and charting a new course and risking losing everything he cherishes. From your dreamy mountaintop community of Roseto Valfortore in Italy to the attractive pavements of South Philly to the close-knit enclave of Roseto, Pa, to NEW YORK during the beginning of the golden age of television set, Kiss Carlo is a powerful intergenerational report that celebrates the ties that bind while staying true to oneself when all expectation seems lost. Told against the backdrop of some of Shakespeare's best comedies, this novel brims with love as long-buried secrets are disclosed, mistaken identities are unmasked, scores are settled, shattered hearts are mended, and true love reigns. Trigiani's consummate storytelling skill and her trademark wit, plus a dazzling solid of heroes, will enthrall listeners. Once more the writer has returned to her own family garden to generate an memorable feast. Kiss Carlo is a jubilee, resplendent with expectation, love, and the abiding vitality of la famiglia.
