NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first novel in the beloved Big Stone
Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana
Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John
Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman
**"Delightfully quirky . . . chock-full of engaging, oddball characters
and unexpected plot twists."--People (Book of the Week)
**
It's 1978, and Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old
self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She's also the local pharmacist, the
co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine, the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Ave Maria is
content with her life--until, one fateful day, her past opens wide with
the revelation of a long-buried secret that will alter the course of her
life. Before she knows it, Ave Maria is fielding marriage proposals,
trying to claim her rightful inheritance, and planning the trip of a
lifetime to Italy--one that will change her view of the world and her
own place in it forever.
Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the small
town of Big Stone Gap, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
and its self-proclaimed spinster. Full of wit and wonder, hilarity and
heart, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book, and one that you will share
with friends and family for years to come.
WINNER OF THE LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA ANNUAL LITERARY AWARD
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