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Get on the boat! We’re going to Lake Como! New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Adriana Trigiani is the consummate storyteller. The adored novelist, who’s also a celebrated screenwriter, producer, director, and podcast host, pays homage to her Italian roots in her fiction, consistently bringing both laughter and tears to her devoted readers ever since her debut twenty-five years ago with Big Stone Gap.

Her new novel is a fresh, contemporary, intergenerational must-read. The View From Lake Como, is everything an immersive summer read should be—it’s funny and heart-wrenching, with perfectly imperfect characters that readers will feel deeply connected to. With its vivid depiction of the complexities of familial relationships, the novel is a love letter to big Italian American families, Old World roots, and daughters who learn to live life on their own terms. It’s for anyone who finally wants to start living the life they’ve always dreamed of.

USA Today crowned Adriana Trigiani “one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction,” and The View From Lake Como promises to earn her the title of Queen of Italian American Literature. After all, she’s already been knighted—by Italian President Sergio Mattarella with The Order of the Star of Italy (Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia) for her outstanding contributions promoting good will and positivity about her family’s home country.