03045cam a2200445 i 4500 2501627958 TxAuBib 20250821120000.0 250620s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024040007 9780593183359 hardcover 0593183355 hardcover (OCoLC)1524237982 TxAuBib rda Trigiani, Adriana, author. The view from Lake Como : a novel / Adriana Trigiani. New York, NY : Dutton, [2025] ©2025. 405 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier After a painful divorce and family upheaval in working-class Lake Como, New Jersey, draftswoman Jess Capodimonte Baratta flees to Carrara, Italy, where artistic ambition, and new relationships reshape her understanding of love, loyalty, and personal fulfillment. In blue-collar Lake Como, New Jersey, family comes first. Recently divorced from Bobby Bilancia, "the perfect husband," Jess moves into her parents' basement to hide and heal. Jess is the overlooked daughter, who dutifully takes care of her parents, cooks Sunday dinner, and puts herself last. Despite her role as the family handmaiden, Jess is also a talented draftswoman in the marble business run by her confidant, her dapper uncle Louie, who believes she can do anything (once she invests in a better wardrobe). When the Capodimonte and Baratta families endure an unexpected loss, the shock unearths long-buried secrets that will force Jess to question her loyalty to those she trusted. Fueled by her lost dreams, Jess takes fate into her own hands and escapes to her ancestral home, Carrara, Italy. From the shadows of the majestic marble-capped mountains of Tuscany, to the glittering streets of Milan, and on the shores of enchanting Lake Como (the other one), Jess begins to carve a place in this new/old world. When she meets Angelo Strazza, a passionate artist who works in gold, she discovers her own skills are priceless. But as Jess uncovers the truth about her family history, it will change the course of her life and those she loves the most forever. In love and work, in art and soul, Jess will need every tool she has mastered to reinvent her life. 20250821. Divorced women Fiction. Male artists Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Family-owned business enterprises Fiction. Italian American families Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Drafters Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Como, Lake (Italy) Fiction. Carrara (Italy) Fiction. Romance fiction. fast Domestic fiction. fast Novels. fast