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Milk Glass Moon by Adriana Trigiani
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Milk Glass Moon

by Adriana Trigiani

Series: Big Stone Gap (book 3)

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Fawcett (2005), Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages

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  katiemertz | Nov 20, 2009 |
Ave, Jack Mack, Iva Lou ande Etta feel like family now. I have enjoyed all three books and I am looking forward to the fourth. I just wish Eta's story didn't feel so rushed. ( )
  asomers | Sep 7, 2009 |
for some reason this was my least favorite in the big stone gap series. it had a rushed, pat feeling. ave maria seemed much more bossy and less likeable than usual, at least in her interactions with etta...although an explanation was supplied. also, the resolution to her conflict with her daughter seemed forced and too quick...she was angry on one page and over it two pages later (or at least it seemed that way). still, adriana trigiani is one of my favorite writers and i am definitely looking forward to her next book. ( )
  bearette24 | Mar 29, 2009 |
Settling down with a book from Adriana Trigiani's Big Stone Gap series is like curling up on a Sunday afternoon with a cup of hot chocolate and a hot water bottle - it's warm, comforting and very enjoyable.

In this episode of Ave Maria's life, she struggles with her daughter Etta, who is growing up from a little girl into a young woman. Ave Maria had defined ideas of what her daughter would be like, but the headstrong Etta has different ideas. Meantime, a person from Ave's past comes back into her life and makes her assess her marriage closely...

All the familiar cast from the first two books are here - Iva Lou, Fleeta, Spec and of course Jack MacChesney, and reading about them is like receiving a letter from an old friend. If you enjoyed the first two books in the series, this one is recommended. ( )
  Book_Junkie | Mar 5, 2009 |
Not as interesting as the first two in the series, but still a fun read and escape to the 'South', as well as Italy. I do love the main characters voice. She often has the same reactions that I do to certain situations - like running in to the floozy (Karen Bell) that attempted to steal her husband. Great internal dialog there;) A fun and delightful continuation to the history of Ave Marie, Jack Mac and their daughter Etta, as well as all the other eccentrics of Big Stone Gap that I have come to love. ( )
  erinmontague | Jan 13, 2009 |
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For my father, Anthony J. Trigiani
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The Wise County Fair is my daughter's favorite event of the year, and I think it's safe to say that includes Christmas.
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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0743450884, Paperback)

Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.

Transporting us from Ave Maria's home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from New York City to the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon is the story of a shifting mother-daughter relationship, of a daughter's first love and a mother's heartbreak, of an enduring marriage that contains its own ongoing challenges, and of a community faced with seismic change.

All of Trigiani's beloved characters are back: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's true love, who is willing to gamble security for the unknown; her best friend and confidant, bandleader Theodore Tip-ton, who begins a new life in New York City; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death crisis. Meanwhile, surprises emerge in the blossoming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the maturing of mountain girl turned savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the return of Pete Rutledge, the handsome stranger who turned Ave Maria's world upside down in Big Cherry Holler.

In this rollicking hayride of upheaval and change, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation. As Ave Maria reaches into the past to find answers to the present, readers will stay with her every step of the way, rooting for the onetime town spinster who embraced love and made a family. Milk Glass Moon is about the power of love and its abiding truth, and captures Trigiani at her most lyrical and heartfelt.


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