Big Stone Gap Novels: Big Stone Gap Lib/E (Audiobook)

from tipsister

Big Stone Gap, by Adriana Trigiani, is a charming novel with a wonderful cast of characters. The main character is Ave Maria, a thirty-five year old pharmacist who considers herself the town spinster. After her mother passes away, she learns the truth about who she really is and that the man who ...

from tloeffler

Ave Maria Mulligan is the town pharmacist in Big Stone Gap, VA. When her mother dies, she leaves a letter telling her big secret, which changes everything Ave Maria always knew about herself. This is a fun little story of life in the mountains, with all the attendant personalities. Sometimes Ave ...

from nancynova

trekwoman's bookbox; Ave Maria - a 35yo spinster in town & daughter of an Italian immigrant, and running Mulligan's pharmacy, her late father's enterprise figures she will never marry. Eccentric town folk, and a letter from her mother that reveals she's not who she thinks. Two marriage proposals ...

from LibraryCin

3.5 stars In the late 1970s in a small town in Virginia, Ave Maria is 35-years old and a "spinster". She is a pharmacist and owns the town pharmacy. She has never worried too much about not having a man. Her father died a long time ago and her mother just recently died; she left a letter for her ...

from jennannej

Pleasantly surprised by this book. The name sounded a bit hokey and didn't really inspire me to read the book, but I found a cheap copy at a thrift store and picked it up anyway. 'What the hey.' I thought, 'I can always bookcross it!' Imagine my surprise when I was completely enthralled with this...