Then, fatefully, she meets the dapper John Talbot, who seems the man of her dreams, even draping her in full-length mink, and she ignores the signs that he is trouble and plans marriage.
When her impending marriage to childhood sweetheart Dante threatens just that, she refuses him, startling her beloved family. Altman's, who's determined not to let the traditions of her loving family lock her into the patterns of the past. Once Kit can be bothered to listen, however, she finds out that Aunt Lu was once the most beautiful girl in Greenwich Village, Lucia Sartori, an intelligent and ambitious seamstress in the custom department at B.
Aunt Lu on first glance is an eccentric lady in her 70s who trails around in a fur. Kit Zanetti, a young playwright in present-day New York, accepts an invitation to the apartment of "Aunt Lu," as she is known in their building. Poignant and feeling, it looks back on the experiences of the beautiful daughter of an Italian-American family in Greenwich Village in the early '50s. Greenwich Village is a far cry from the rural Virginia of Trigiani's best-selling trilogy ( Big Stone Gap Big Cherry Holler Milk Glass Moon), but the emotional terrain covered in the author's first novel is warmly familiar.
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