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Known and loved all over the world on her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the minute Ny Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small town life with Queens of the Big Time. This heartfelt story of the limits and power of love chronicles the remarkable lives of the Castellucas, an Italian-American family, within the span of three generations.In the late-1800s, the residents of the small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land of America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and recreated their former lives within their new home–down for the very last detail of who lived nearby to whom. The village’s yearly celebration of Our Lady of Support Carmel–or “the Big Style,” whilst the event is known as by the ladies who compete to function as the pageant’s Queen–is the decoration of Roseto’s vibrant old world tradition.The industrious Castellucas farm the land outside Roseto.