num_pages: 307
description: Eight years have passed since Ave Maria Mulligan married Jack Mac, moved up into the hills, and dug her roots in even deeper. But Ave Maria soon discovers that the mountains cannot shelter her from the painful lessons of the heart. As her life reaches a crossroads, almost everybody in town has advice to offer–including the Bookmobile’s self-appointed sexpert Iva Lou Wade, savvy pharmacy owner Pearl Grimes (“a very mature twenty-four”), crusty chain-smoking cashier Fleeta, and of course, the always-wise band director Theodore Tipton, now unofficially “out” and about. But when Ave Maria takes her daughter to Italy for the summer, her passion for a seductive stranger will test her marriage–and push her to choose the man who is truly her destiny.
language: English
title: Big Cherry Holler
titlecomplete: Big Cherry Holler (Big Stone Gap, #2)
characters: Karen Bell, Jack "Jack Mac" MacChesney, Etta MacChesney, Pearl Grimes, Fleeta Mullins, Spec Broadwater, Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney, Pete Rutledge, Iva Lou Wade Makin, Theodore Tipton
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Southern, Chick Lit, Italy, Adult, Romance, Adult Fiction, Womens Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 18787
places: Virginia, Big Stone Gap, Virginia
series: Big Stone Gap
publisher: Ballantine Books