Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

2010: Valentine Roncalli is 35 and feeling every bit of her years. While her friends and siblings all have families of their own, she lives in her 80-year-old grandmother’s home, amongst all of her grandmother’s trinkets and memories, Valentine wants a man. Gianluca is that man. The suave Italian lights her up like a Roman candle. That’s the issue novelist Adriana Trigiani confronts in her second Valentine story, "Brava, Valentine."