Home to Big Stone Gap

Adriana Trigiani's Home to Big Stone Gap was published in 2006. It is one in a series of novels inspired by and named after Trigiani's Virginia hometown. Big Stone Gap, the first book in the series, began life as a screenplay for television, but Trigiani was encouraged to rewrite it as a book; in response, critics have described her writing "as comfortable as a mug of chamomile tea on a rainy Sunday."