The release date for the English version of 'Big Stone Gap' by
Adriana Trigiani is Jan 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Some of Virginia's most endearing eccentrics may be found in the little community of Big Stone Gap, which is tucked away in the state's Blue Ridge Mountains. The thirty-five-year-old pharmacist Ave Maria Mulligan, who describes herself as a spinster, has a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She has a pleasant life filled with many interests and wonderful relationships until that terrible day in 1978 when she suddenly realizes that she is not who she has always believed herself to be. Before she knows it, Ave is arranging a party for visiting celebrities, fending off avaricious relatives, accepting marriage offers, and preparing the trip of a lifetime—a voyage that has the power to permanently alter her perspective on the world and her role in it.
Big Stone Gap is an enormously heartfelt novel that is full of wisdom about small-town life and comedy.