by Adriana Trigiani
Trigiani’s stories of a middle-aged spinster finding love and a sense of self in a small Virginia coal town is light and refreshing. Ave Maria Mulligan is satisfied if not exactly happy in her role as the town pharmacist and begins questioning her quiet country life.
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Description: Ave Maria’s life is the same as it’s been for all 35 years of her life, but after her mother’s will reveals that the man Ave thought was her father isn’t, she begins to lose hold of her routine. Before long, she’s had two surprise marriage proposals, the clerk at her pharmacy has decided to quit, and her embittered aunt has decided to sue her.
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Description: It’s been eight years since Ave Maria married coal miner Jack MacChesney. Ave Maria makes a life for herself and her growing family but what she didn’t count on was that fate, life, and the ghosts of the past would come to haunt her..
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Description: Ave Maria – on the road to a more settled life in Big Stone Gap, is here unsettled again by her daughter’s blossoming and a bold decision by her husband that will change their lives.
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Description: Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her husband, Jack, must come to terms with the absence of daughter Etta, newly married and living in Italy.