Big Business is a book about taking a chance, even by accident, and how that can initiate a journey beyond imagination. Mary Blu, 35 years old, tall and raw-boned, lives with Belinda, her pretty sister who lives in a world of fantasy. Their parents have just died. Mary who cares about everybody but herself lives a hesitant life, afraid of making mistakes. One morning entering her house after returning from her graveyard shift at a nursing home, Belinda jumps at her, waving a brochure about a New Age Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Belinda who doesn't leave the house anymore desperately begs her sister to attend. Mary finally gives in because after all she is supposed to take care of her sister. Thus starts Mary's adventure with all its possibilities, dangers and final idiosyncratic triumph.