Wednesday
June
22 at
12:30 pm
Moderated
by
Annie Pleshette Murphy
Adriana
Trigiani
Rococo: A Novel
Reading • Talk • Booksigning
New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved by millions of readers around the world for her humor, warmth, and captivating storytelling in the Big Stone Gap trilogy and Lucia, Lucia, takes on love, lust, tricky family dynamics, and home decorating in Rococo, the uproarious tale of a small Italian American town poised for a makeover it never expected.
Brilliantly funny and as fanciful as flocked wallpaper, filled with glamorous locales from New Jersey to Europe, from Sunday Mass to the American Society of Interior Designers soirée at the Plaza Hotel, Rococo is Trigiani’s masterpiece, a classic comedy with a heart of gold leaf.
Adriana
Trigiani is an award-winning playwright, television writer,
and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling Big Stone
Gap trilogy and the novel Lucia, Lucia, Trigiani has written the screenplay
for the movie Big Stone Gap, which she will also direct. She lives
in New York City with her husband and daughter
Visit her website at: www.adrianatrigiani.com.
WORD FOR WORD is a Bryant Park lunchtime series presented in cooperation with Coliseum Books. Notable authors discuss their newest books at the Bryant Park Reading Room, alongside 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Following the readings, the authors will sign books, for sale on site from Coliseum Books.
In case of rain, this event will be moved to the Coliseum Books Café.