Across The Table-Dancing On Sunday Afternoons

Description for ACROSS THE TABLE & DANCING ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS by Linda Cardillo:

ACROSS THE TABLE:

For three generations of Dante women, food means love…

From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family and friends. Her daughter Toni tried to create her own life, outside that circle -- only to return with her daughter when her marriage failed. Now that Vanessa's nearly grown, Toni must face the bitterness of the past in order to taste the sweetness of the future.

But she can't make such a journey alone. She needs the guidance of a mother, of her family. She needs Rose's recipes for happiness, learned by trial and error over sixty years of marriage. Recipes that are sometimes difficult to follow, but like the perfect risotto al limone, are worth the effort.

An unforgettable story of family and forgiveness, loyalty and love.

DANCING ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS:

My love for you grows day by day and nothing can stop it, not even the anger and disapproval of your family...

Reading these words, written to her grandmother decades before, Cara Serafini finally learns the great secret, the triumph, of Giulia's life--the love she shared with her first husband, Paolo.

It's a love that began when Giulia left the Italian village of her birth and came to New York, where Paolo Serafini captured her heart...and took her dancing on Sunday afternoons.

And as Cara discovers, it's a love that's never ended--and never will.