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DeFino, Terri-Lynne.
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Widows -- Fiction.
Italian American families -- Fiction.
Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction.
New Jersey -- Fiction.
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DeFino, Terri-Lynne.
Widows -- Fiction.
Italian American families -- Fiction.
Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction.
New Jersey -- Fiction.
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Varina Palladino's
Jersey
Italian
love
story
: a novel / Terri-Lynne DeFino.
by
DeFino, Terri-Lynne.
Harper Large Print, 2023.
Call #:
LP FICTION DEF
Subjects
Widows -- Fiction.
Italian
American families -- Fiction.
Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction.
New
Jersey
-- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780063297821 (large print pbk.)
Alternate title:
Jersey
Italian
love
story
Description:
544 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes recipes.
Summary:
"Lively widow Varina Paladino has lived in the same house in Wyldale, New
Jersey
, her entire life. The town might be slightly stuck in the 1960s, when small businesses thrived and most residents were
Italian
, but its population is getting younger and the Paladinos are embracing the change. What Varina’s not embracing, much to her ninety-two-year-old mother’s dismay, is dating. Running Paladino’s
Italian
Specialties grocery, caring for her mother, and keeping her large, loud
Jersey
Italian
family from killing one another takes up all of Varina’s energy anyway. Sylvia Spini worries about her daughter Varina being left all alone when she dies. Sylvia knows what it is to be old and alone, so when her granddaughter, Donatella, comes to her with an ill-conceived plan to find Varina a man, Sylvia dives in. The three men of the family -- Dante, Tommy, and Paulie -- are each secretly plotting their own big life changes, which will throw everyone for a loop. Three generations of Paladinos butt heads and break one another’s hearts as they wrestle with their own
Jersey
Italian
love
stories in this hilarious and life-affirming ode to
love
and family."--Publisher.
Genre:
Humorous fiction.
Love
stories.
Domestic fiction.
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Adult Large Print Fiction
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