Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
Rating: Great!
Aunt Lou is a 70 something lady that lives in a Greenwich Village apartment and at the first sign of cold weather puts on her full length fur coat to run her errands.  Kit is a young play write that is getting frustrated by rejection letters, and is invited to Aunt Lou's fifth floor apartment for a "sale".  Kit is intrigued by the prospects of finding "good stuff" goes to Lou's apartment and finds something much more interesting then things, but the story of Lucia. This is one of those books that makes the reader feel good and enriched for taking the time to read it.  Triumphs and tragedy, parties and work, family, and friends, love and sadness.  Life!  And everything is just as it should be.