Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope.

Nestled in the lush Blue Rideg Mountains of Virginia , the town of Big Stone Gap has been home to Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding close her tight circle of fam-ily and friends.

But with her daughter, Etta, having flown the nest to enchanting Italy . Ave Maria has reached a turning point. When a friend's postcard arrives with the message “ It's time to live your life for you,” Ave Maria realizes that she must go in search of brand-new dreams. But before she can put her foot the path, her life upside down.

Ave Maria agrees to helm musical, a hilari-ous reunion of local talent pas t and present. A lifelong friendship collapses when a mysterious stranger comes to town and reveals a long-buried secret. An unexpected health crisis threatens her family. An old heartthrob reappears, challenging her marriage and offering a way out of her troubles. An opportunistic coal company arrives and threatens to undermine the com-munity way of life and the mountain landscape Ave maria has treasured since she was a girl. Now she has no choice but to reinvent her world, her life, and herself, whether she wants to or not.

Trigiani is at her best in this exquisite page-turner. Home to Big Stone Gap is an emotional and unforgettable journey that reminds us you can go home again and again.

 

ADRIANA TRIGIANI is an award-winning playwright, televi-sion writer, and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series and the New York Times bestselling novels Lucia, Lucia, The Queen of the Big Time, and Rococo, she has been published in twenty-two countries around the world. Trigiani has written the screenplay for the movie Big Stone Gap, which she will also direct. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.