Big Stone Gap A Novel

Set in 1978, the novel centers on Ave Maria Mulligan, the thirty-five-year-old self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Ave Maria works as the local pharmacist, is the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and directs the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Her amiable, routine life among the town's charming eccentrics is shattered when she discovers a long-buried, scandalous secret about her family's past, revealing that she is not who she always thought she was. The revelation opens up a whole new life for her, as she finds herself suddenly fielding unexpected marriage proposals, dealing with family disputes over inheritance, and planning a life-changing trip to Italy that will challenge her view of the world and her own place in it.

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