Big Stone Gap: A Novel (Big Stone Gap Novels)
by Adriana Trigiani

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Book Review: "Gap" reveals mysteries of love and joy of self-discovery
Summary: 4 Stars

The protagonist, shattered by the death of her beloved, immigrant mother, outlines the basic challenge she faces as a middle-aged, independent, but lonely woman: "Pracitical Ave Maria must go. Me. The never-married town pharmacist who is never caught without her first aid kit...The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me." Trigiani sculpts her novel around Ave Maria's inability to feel, to act on impulses of love, to become something other than Big Stone Gap's sensible, efficient, spinster-like institution.

Soon enough, Ave Maria must determine not only how to treat multiple marriage proposals but to come to grips with her own startling origins. Trigiani is simply extraordinary in he resolution of Ave Maria's quest for identity, never compromising real epiphany for cliched answers.

We are fortunate to lie in times where American women authors are so adroit in mining the human heart and presenting works of literature which instruct us as to what loving relationships are and how we, in our stumbling, awkward ways, learn to accept ourselves and have faith in each other. Trigiani prophetically states that "the great mysteries in life can only be solved person to person. We can pull each other through." Americans are lucky to have yet another Southern woman to be our guide to the truths of the heart.

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