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New York Times-Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved by an incredible number of viewers all over the world for her humor, warmth, and captivating storytelling in the Big Stone Gap trilogy and Lucia, Lucia, assumes love, lust, tricky family dynamics, and decorating in Rococo, the uproarious tale of a little Italian American town poised for a makeover it never expected.Bartolomeo di Crespi may be the acclaimed interior decorator of Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. Up to now, Bartolomeo has hand-selected every chandelier, sconce, and ottoman in OLOF, then when the renovation of the neighborhood church is scheduled, he assumes there's just one guy for that job.From the dazzling shores of New Jersey to the legendary fabric houses of New York City, from the prickly purveyors of art work in London to luscious Santa Margherita on the Mediterranean coast of Italy, Bartolomeo is on a mission to create talent, sophistication, and his aesthetic vision to his hometown.Trigiani’s glittering mosaic of small-town characters sparkles: Bartolomeo’s hilarious sister, Toot, is in desperate need of a postdivorce transformation–thirteen Decades following the truth; “The Benefactor,” Aurelia Mandelbaum, the richest woman in Nj, includes a lust for French interiors and an extended-held hope that Bartolomeo will marry her myopic daughter, Capri; Father Porporino, the pastor with a secret, does his better to keep a lid on a simmering scandal; and Eydie Von Gunne, the chic international designer, steps in and changes the span of Bartolomeo’s creative life, while his confidante, cousin Christina Menecola, awaits rescue from an inconsolable grief. Plaster of Paris, polished marble, and unbridled testosterone get to buckets when Bartolomeo recruits Rufus McSherry, a strapping, handsome artist, and Pedro Allercon, a stained glass artisan, to work well with him about the church’s inside. Together, the three of them will do significantly more than blow the pull out the old Fatima frescoes–they will turn the city inverted, challenge the faithful, and restore hope where there was previously none.Brilliantly funny and as fanciful as flocked wallpaper, filled with glamorous locales from Nj to Europe, from Sunday Mass to the American Society of Interior Designers soirée at the Plaza Hotel, Rococo is Trigiani’s masterpiece, a vintage comedy with a heart of silver leaf."A veritable crazy cover of cool French Americans, Trigiani weaves each one of these subplots together with fantastic simplicity; every seam is completely right, every pleat in position.