{"product_id":"lucia-lucia-9780812967791-new","title":"Lucia, Lucia","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.\"--\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place.\"--\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris' honor is tested.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BALLANTINE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52605562421538,"sku":"9780812967791-new","price":19.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780812967791.jpg?v=1790042751","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/lucia-lucia-9780812967791-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}