Description
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani is a warm and humorous novel about Ave Maria Mulligan, a 35-year-old pharmacist who has become something of a local spinster in the small Virginia town of Big Stone Gap. Comfortable with her work, her best friend Theodore and her mother, Ave Maria has settled into a predictable life — until her mother dies and a letter arrives containing a long-held family secret.
The revelation forces Ave Maria to question what she knows about her family and herself. As news of the secret spreads through the close-knit town, old relationships change and new possibilities emerge, including unexpected attention from men she has known for years. What begins as a devastating discovery gradually becomes an opportunity for Ave Maria to reconsider the life she has built and what she really wants from it. Set in the late 1970s, Big Stone Gap is the first novel in Trigiani’s Big Stone Gap series, followed by Big Cherry Holler, Milk Glass Moon and Home to Big Stone Gap.
