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Widely known and loved for her moving Big Stone Gap trilogy and the New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the pageantry of small-town life with Queen of the Big Time. This heartrending story of forbidden love chronicles the remarkable life of the Castellucas, an Italian-American family, over the course of three generations. In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home -- down to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom. The village's celebration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel -- or "the Big Time," as the occasion is called by the young women who compete to be the pageant's queen -- is the centerpiece of Roseto's old-world tradition.

The industrious Castellucas work the land outside Roseto. Teenage Nella, the middle daughter of five, aspires to a genteel life "in town," far from the rigors of farm life, which have taken a toll on her mother and placed the Castellucas low on the social strata. But Nella's dreams of making her own fortune shift when she meets and falls in love with Renato Lanzara, a worldly, handsome, devil-may-care poet who has a way with words that makes him irresistible. Their friendship ignites into a passionate affair that Nella is certain will lead to marriage. But Nella is not alone in her every girl in town seems to want Renato. When he disappears without explanation, Nella is left with a shattered heart. Four years later, Renato's sudden return to Roseto the night before Nella's wedding leaves her and all the townsfolk shaken. For although Renato has chosen a path very different from Nella's, they are fated to live together, in the same town, for the rest of their lives.

An epic of small-town life, The Queen of the Big Time is the story of a determined, passionate woman who, through decades of change, cannot forget her first love.