BIG CHERRY HOLLER, the extraordinary sequel to BIG STONE
GAP, takes us back to the mountain life that enchanted us in
Adriana Trigiani’s best selling debut novel. It’s been eight
years since the town pharmacist and long time spinster Ave
Maria Mulligan married coal miner Jack MacChesney. With her
new found belief in love and its possibilities, Ave Maria
makes a life for herself and her growing family, hoping that
her fearless leap into commitment will make happiness stay.
What she didn’t count on was that fate, life, and the ghosts
of the past would come to haunt her and, eventually, test
the love she has for her husband. The mountain walls that
have protected her all of her life can not spare Ave Maria
the life lessons she must learn.
BIG CHERRY HOLLER is the story of a marriage, revealing the
deep secrets, the power struggle, the betrayal and the unmet
expectations that exist between husband and wife. It is the
story of a community that must reinvent itself as it comes
to grips with the decline of the coal mining industry. It is
the story of an extended family, the people of Big Stone
Gap, who are there for one another especially when times are
tough—including bookmobile librarian and sexpert Iva Lou
Wade Makin, savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, crusty cashier
Fleeta Mullins, and Rescue Squad captain Spec Broadwater,
who faces the complications of his double life. Ave Maria’s
best friend Theodore Tipton, now band director at the
University of Tennessee, continues to be her chief counselor
and conscience as he reaches the pinnacle of marching band
success.
When Ave Maria takes her daughter to Italy for the summer,
she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life beyond
the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ave Maria is forced to confront
what is truly important: to her, to her marriage, and to her
family. Brimming with humor, wisdom, honesty, and the drama
and local color of mountain life from Virginia to Italy, BIG
CHERRY HOLLER is a deeply felt, brilliantly evoked story of
two lovers who have lost their way and their struggle to
find one another again.
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