This is a gentle and humorous story of Ave Maria Mulligan, whose
incongruous name belies her awkward conformity in the small
mountain town of Big Stone Gap. Unlike many of the townsfolk, Ave
Maria did not marry in her teens and immediately start a family,
but has carved a contented niche for herself, serving her community
as the town pharmacist as well as volunteer emergency service
provider and director of the town's big tourist attraction
stage-play. Believing herself to be happy as the town's
self-proclaimed spinster, she is shocked to discover emotions that
she does not recognize when she learns her family secret, concealed
from her long after her father's death, and only revealed in a
posthumous letter from her mother. The letter kick-starts Ave
Maria's curiosity and drive and awakens in her the realization that
she has been suppressing her thoughts and feelings for too long.
She sets about unravelling the confusion of her emotions and heads
towards self-fulfilment and understanding, a study that some of her
friends have already begun. Iva Lou Wade, who eats men for
breakfast, and the dashing Theodore Tipton both understand Ave
Maria better than she does herself, and with their individual
brands of caring for her, Ave Maria emerges at the end of her 35th
year a very differnet person from at the beginning. This romantic
journey encompasses two marriage proposals, a bitter and angry
family feud and a community's hopes, excitements (including a visit
from Elizabeth Taylor!) and fears. Trigiani weaves an original and
charming illustration of the old maxim that still waters run deep.
(Kirkus UK)
Ava Maria Mulligan, 35-years-old and single, is something of an oddity in Big Stone Gap, a place where kids get married at 18 and stay forever. Suddenly she is juggling two unexpected marriage proposals and presiding over a family feud, and life in Big Stone Gap seems overwhelming.
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