num_pages: 291
description: A book about losing your place finding your purpose and immersing yourself in what holds community and humanity togetherbooksWendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore. When the opportunity to escape a toxic work environment and run to a struggling Virginia coal mining town presented itself they took it. And took the plunge into starting their dream as well. They chose to ignore the death of the book the closing of bookstores across the nation and the difficult economic environment and six years later they have carved a bookstoreand a lifeout of an Appalachian mountain community.A story of beating bad odds with grace ingenuity good books and single malt this memoir chronicles two bibliophiles discovering unlikely ways in which daily living and literature intertwine. Their customersBob the Mad Irishman Wee Willie and The Lady Who Liked Romances to name a fewcome to the shop looking for the kind of interactive wisdom Kindles don't spark and they find friendship community and the uncommon pleasure of a good book in good company.The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap will make you want to run to the local bookstore and curl up in an arm chair with a treasure in bound pages.
language: English
title: The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
publisher: St. Martin's Press