The Diane Rehm Show
11:00 Live EST- Adriana Trigiani: Big Cherry Holler 
Adriana Trigiani's debut novel, Big Stone Gap, told the story of Ave Maria Mulligan, a self-proclaimed spinster pharmacist in the author's real-life hometown of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Ave Maria returns in a sequel, which begins eight years after her marriage to coal miner Jack McChesney.

The Diane Rehm Show
National Public Radio, May 30, 2000
Television producer Adriana Trigiani discusses her first novel. It's set in her Virginia home town, which is best known to the outside world as the place where Elizabeth Taylor almost choked while campaigning for then-husband Senator John Warner. She talks about the colorful characters in her book, and how close the fictional Big Stone Gap is to the real town.

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