The View From Lake Como by Adriana TrigianiMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
4.5 Stars. Giuseppina Capodimonte Baratta (Jess) lives with her Italian American family in Lake Como, New Jersey. All of her relatives live within a two-block area, and the family is incredibly close. She currently works for her favorite uncle in the family business – Italian marble. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, she is a 30-something adult who has not achieved her goals or dreams, which prompts her to seek therapy through the online Thera-Me.
All of this changes when she makes a life-changing decision to move to Cararra, Italy to pursue her dream of learning more about the marble business. Jess learns the marble business from Italian artisans, travels to Milan and the Italian Lake Como, makes new friends, finds a family, encounters love and loss, and most of all discovers herself.
It’s fun to follow Jess on her adventures in self-discovery, and her Italian American family provides quite a bit humor. The part of the book set in Italy is incredibly descriptive, and made me want to jump on a plane immediately! As with all the Adriana Trigiani books that I have read, I absolutely loved it and fell in love immediately with the main character.
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