Brava Valentine, by Adriana Trigiani
Rating:  Really Good, ****
I really enjoyed this book.  Maybe more then the first of the series Very Valentine.  The characters dialog is funny, thoughtful, and entertaining.  A great story about an American Italian family that own a custom shoe shop in Greenwich Village.  The 34 year old Valentine takes over for her grandmother's custom shoe store that has been in the family for over a 100 years.  She is forced to become partners with her estranged brother at her grandmother's request.   Valentine has to figure out a way to work with her brother, and manufacture a shoe for everyday wear to save the family business.   Along the way she meets a cousin that she didn't know she had in Buenos Aries, and reconnects with the love of her life (although she doesn't know it.) Gianluca Vechiarelli.   The story takes you to beautiful cities in Italy, Buenos Aries, and of course back to her home in New York.