Judy (USA: TX) (2007/05/17): If you grew up in the 50's, you will love this book. It is about an Italian Catholic family in New York City. 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 chi B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Enaged 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 grils like her only read about int he society pages.
