Home to Big Stone Gap : a novel

by Adriana Trigiani

Large Print, 2006

Publication

New York : Random House Large Print, c2006.

Collection

Eiland Center

Call number

Large Print Fiction T

Physical description

418 p.; 24 cm

Status

Checked out

Due 2024-06-03

Call number

Large Print Fiction T

Description

Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge 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 family and friends. But with her daughter Etta, having flown the nest to 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 on the path, her life is turned upside down.

User reviews

LibraryThing member seasidereader

The original Big Stone Gap is still the best in this series, but this sentimental fourth installment was perfect for a winter solstice read by the fireside.

I love Trigiani's insights about relationships and her character's emotional temperament. She makes an Appalachian small town come to life

with people we care about.

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LibraryThing member onthehill

I liked this book. There is a lot of self-introspection. The main character falls out with a friend over a secret. Takes place in Big Stone Gap, VA.

LibraryThing member erinclark

I enjoyed the other books in the series a bit more than this one, but still a fun read with great characters with great dialog.

LibraryThing member Marliesd

Didn't have the luster of the other books in the series for me. I'm kind of sick of Ave Maria by now.

LibraryThing member marient7

Big Stone Gap is in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney lives with her husband , her only daughter having married and moved to Italy.

LibraryThing member countrylife

Drawn to the cover on the thrift store shelf, I stood there and read a couple of pages. It passed the test, so I bought it. As it turns out, this is number four in a series. And apparently, not a series that works too well stepping smack into the middle of. Too many characters with too much

backstory both implied and hurriedly trying to catch the reader up with. (Amn’t I a great review writer – two sentences in a row ending with prepositions!) There was good depth to the main characters, a married couple, but otherwise, too many straggling story lines that belonged to the series as a whole. It is not a series that I’ll continue with, though bits and pieces of this particular book were enjoyable.

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LibraryThing member BookConcierge

Book on CD read by Cassandra Campbell

Trigiani takes the reader back to Big Stone Gap for the continuing story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family (book #4 in the Big Stone Gap series). Ave Maria is feeling a little down because her daughter has gotten married and moved to Italy. Then a

stranger comes to town and this results in a break between Ave Maria and Iva Lou. Add to this the stress of Jack Mac’s health problems and the arrival in town of a coal company that plans to employ mountaintop removal and it’s no wonder Ave Maria is feeling out of sorts. On the other hand there is plenty to celebrate – a wedding, a community theatre production, Christmas, and a dream trip to Scotland. It’s an entertaining novel that shows the ups and downs of life and the importance of family, friends, and a place to call home. Campbell does a fine job on the audio. She has a good pace and enough skill with various voices to differentiate the many characters.

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LibraryThing member punxsygal

Adriana Trigiani has kept up the high quality of her writing in this, the fourth book in the Big Stone Gap series. Even after twenty years of marriage, Ave Maria is finding that you still have to work at your relationship to your husband--you can't just coast and keep a vibrant love going. And she

experiences other sides to friendships and the importance of making judgements about your friends.

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LibraryThing member LeslieHurd

This is the story of Ava Maria McChesney and her life in the small town of Big Stone Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Ava Maria has lived in Big Stone Gap her entire life. She married Jack Chesney later in life and had two children: Joe who died at four, and Etta who's just married and

is living in Italy with her new husband in Italy. This is a warm story about family and friendships, and the lessons we learn about love and letting go if we live long enough.

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LibraryThing member kemilyh1988

2.5 Ave Maria came across as a b**** in this one. I was quite displeased.

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