Big Stone Gap

By Adriana Trigiani

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Big Stone Gap (2000) by Adriana Trigiani is a novel set in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 1978, Ave Maria Mulligan is thirty-five, unmarried and the town pharmacist, as well as co-captain of the rescue squad and director of the local outdoor drama. She has settled into her role as Big Stone Gap's self-declared spinster, until a family secret and a string of local events unsettle the life she has built.

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