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hello and welcome to the spiritual life I'm Father Jim Martin on this, we reflect on how people experience God in their daily lives and in their prayer.

And I'm joined by my excellent producer, Maggie Van Dorn. Maggie, good to be with you again.

It's great to be with you, Jim. So we have an exciting guest this week. We have Adriana Trajani.

She is a wonderful person full of life and why don't you tell us a little bit about her?

Sure. So Adriana is called one of the reigning queens of women's fiction.

She's a New York Times best-selling author of 21 books of fiction and nonfiction.

She is an award-winning playwright, TV producer, and filmmaker, and Adriana wrote and directed

the major motion picture of her debut novel, Big Stone Gap, adapted her novel, Very Valentine for

television, and directed the award-winning documentary,

Queens of the Big Time, among others. Her latest novel, The View from Lake Como, is being

heralded as the most anticipated summer read. And Adriana has made regular appearances on NBC's

Today Show and Good Day New York, and she has been profiled by publications around the world, including the New York Times, Virginia Living, publishers weekly, and writers digest. And just like us, Adriana has a podcast. You Are What You Read is a podcast in which Adriana and the Luminaries of Our Times discuss the books that built their souls.

So how did you first become acquainted with Adriana's work? Did you read her great summer read?

Well, you know, Maggie, I heard of her books. I had heard of her books, which are very popular as people know, and I'd seen them all over the place. But it really wasn't until she invited me on her podcast that I got to know her. And I just thought, boy, she'd be a great guest on our show. I know she's Catholic. She's Italian. She's 100% Italian. I'm half Italian. So that was a lot of fun. We connected on that.

She's a very animated storyteller as well. She is a very, yes, people will find out.

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