He created draperies that mimic stage curtains, opulent turquoise silk drapes with black silk braid tiebacks.

Gabriel has positioned his zebra-print love seats in front of the windows. “The living room is wallpapered in cream with a black-striped border. Her trips to scenic Italy and Argentina, her Greenwich Village neighborhood and the extreme home makeover of Gram’s apartment above Angelini Shoes by her gay best friend Gabriel are so vividly described, the reader can picture it all so clearly in her mind. She describes the shoes she creates in such detail that I had hoped to see sketches of them in the novel. Luckily, Lifetime TV has optioned the first novel in the series, VERY VALENTINE, for a movie I can't wait! Her scenes are so detailed, and they scream out to be made into a visual medium of some type- a film or a TV miniseries. She also does humor very well you will find yourself laughing out loud when Valentine and Gianluca are almost caught naked in a hotel by her young niece. Tough topics, such as infidelity, job loss, death and racism are also tackled in the novel Trigiani does not shy away from the tougher things in life we all face. Everyone can relate to the family dynamics that occur during weddings and family dinners, culminating with a Thanksgiving dinner that starts out with such promise and high hopes, only to disintegrate into a truth-telling, secret-spilling train wreck. Trigiani comes from a close-knit Italian family herself, and she excels at the family relationships and scenes.

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Brava valentine