Trigiani moved to New York City in the early 1980s where she founded, wrote, directed and performed with the all-girl comedy troupe The Outcasts. “It’s on me to get up early and meet the deadlines, to go out and be an advocate for the work,” she says. She writes at least six hours a day, and is currently laboring over her next book, Kiss Carlo, her 17th, set to release in 2017. Hard work to Trigiani is a responsibility, a mission, a passion and a focus. Her paternal grandparents, Yolanda (Viola) and Michael Trigiani, owned Yolanda Manufacturing Company, a women’s blouse mill, and her mother’s father, Carlo Bonicelli, was a shoemaker with his own shop, which her grandmother, Lucia Bonicelli, a seamstress, ran after he passed away. Her mother, Ida, a librarian, raised the couple’s seven children. Her father, Anthony, moved the family from Roseto, Pennsylvania to Virginia’s Big Stone Gap to open a clothing factory. Her parents and grandparents didn’t just preach the notion of hard work-they lived it. In my family it was more important to be a hard worker than to be smart, than to be beautiful, than to be great at sports.”
“I truly am a heartbeat away from my immigrant grandparents. "I am intrigued by how we survive by the labor of our own hands and who we choose to love and how these decisions build a life in full,” says the bestselling author, who grew up in a loving Italian family.
Themes of work and love fill the pages of Adriana Trigiani’s novels.
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