From the Bookshelf of The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
It's 1978 in the small town of Big Stone Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and thirty-five year old Ave Maria Mulligan is a “ferriner" not just because her mother is Italian. Her best friend Theodore is called that just because he wasn't born there. She has reason to feel even more of an outsider when she reads a letter left her by her mother who died only a month ago. Ave Maria's first person voice is engaging, and the story gives you a real feeling for this mining town, with lots of
...more
Not interested
Bailed on page 33
NOTE: I've been having some health issues, and it's probably thrown me into a bit of a funk. It is not helping matters that I seem also to be experiencing a major reading slump. So maybe it is just me and this book is not really that bad. ...more
Bailed on page 33
NOTE: I've been having some health issues, and it's probably thrown me into a bit of a funk. It is not helping matters that I seem also to be experiencing a major reading slump. So maybe it is just me and this book is not really that bad. ...more
Jan 04, 2010
Elhara
marked it as to-read
Oct 30, 2011
Dian Macnichol
marked it as to-read
Oct 18, 2012
Amanda
marked it as to-read
