{"product_id":"big-stone-gap-9780375504037","title":"Big Stone Gap","description":"\u003cp\u003eIts 1978  and Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap  a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Shes also the local pharmacist  the co-captain of the Rescue Squad  and the director of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine  the towns long-running Outdoor Drama. Ave Maria is content with her life of doing errands and negotiating small details-until she discovers a skeleton in her familys formerly tidy closet that completely unravels her quiet  conventional life. Suddenly  she finds herself juggling two marriage proposals  conducting a no-holds-barred family feud  planning a life-changing journey to the Old Country  and helping her best friend  the high-school band director  design a halftime show to dazzle Elizabeth Taylor  the violet-eyed Hollywood movie star whos coming through town on a campaign stump with her husband  senatorial candidate John Warner.  Filled with big-time eccentrics and small-town shenanigans  Big Stone Gap is a jewel box of original characters  including sexpot Bookmobile librarian Iva Lou Wade; Fleeta Mullins  the chain-smoking pharmacy cashier with a penchant for professional wrestling; the dashing visionary Theodore Tipton; Elmo Gaspar  the snake-handling preacher; Jack MacChesney  a coal-mining bachelor looking for true love; and Pearl Grimes  a shy mountain girl on the verge of a miraculous transformation.  Comic and compassionate  Big Stone Gap is is the story of a woman who thinks life has passed her by  only to learn that the best is yet to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45965834649653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375504036","price":31.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375504037.jpg?v=1788370045","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/big-stone-gap-9780375504037","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}