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Milk Glass Moon
Author: Adriana Trigiani

Book Information

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback

Rating:

121

ISBN-13: 9780345445858 - ISBN-10: 0345445856
Publication Date: 7/1/2003
Pages: 288

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Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Hardcover

Book Description:

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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Nancy L. (sewingnancyl) wrote on 4/17/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

The continuing story of Stone Gap Creek and the lives of the members of the town. Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney was never a devotee of tarot cards and crystal balls. But when the fortune-teller at the county fair suggests she "redream" her life, Ave Maria figures maybe a little redirection is in order.
Beautifully written contemporary story of a family and the choices they make.

Linda S. (Ladyslott) wrote on 10/23/2005...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

The third book in the Big Stone Gap series. While I really enjoyed the first two books in this series, Big Stone Gap and Big Cherry Holler, I found this one to be just okay, a little better than average.

The main character of this book is Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney. In the first two books I really loved her character and her choices in life. This time I wanted to shake her more than once. Instead of the strong character from the first two books she seemed whiney and even shrewish at times, especially within her relationship to her teenaged daughter. I also felt he book seemed rushed, going through years with the turn of a page.

That said I still enjoy the eccentric characters, and the beautiful descriptions, especially of Italy. And I love Jack Mac, Ave's true blue husband; even though I think his appearances here were mostly to calm down Ave after one of her outbursts.

Not as good as the first two, but still gets extra points for bringing me on another trip to Big Stone Gap, which probably won't happen again, as it appears as if there is another book in the series it will be centered elsewhere.

Teresa S. (smalltalker) wrote on 6/21/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

If you loved Big Stone Gap, you will enjoy Milk Glass Moon by Adriana Trigiani. A quick enjoyable read with the usual colorful charaters you expect from a Trigiani novel. Set in the Appalachian mountains the story weaves back and forth between Cracker's Neck Holler, New York City, and Italy.

Trigiani takes this opportunity to delve into the relationships of mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and best friends, even best friends with benefits.

If you are looking for a quick enjoyable read that will draw you in with it's country down home charm and make you want to put your feet up and read some more, go ahead and pick it up and take a load off.

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Christine D. wrote on 7/27/2009...

Well written, good read.

Candace G. (Ogre) wrote on 4/30/2009...

A delightful addition to the Big Stone Gap series.

From back cover:
Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney was never a devotee of tarot cards and crystal balls. But when the fortune-teller at the county fair suggests she 'redream' her life, Ave Maria figures maybe a little redirection is in order. After all, her daughter has hit every parent's nightmare: puberty.
Ave Maria used to think that motherhood was life's one permanent job, but not anymore. It's the only on in which your skills become totally obsolete overnight. o in the face of coed parties, starter bras, and frank sex talks--and with her husband, Jack, playing the cool, mellow dad--Ave Maria tries to prepare herself for the day when Etta will rebel big time.
Everyone in Big Stone Gap knows it's coming: Crusty cashier Fleety has warned her, delightfully naughty Iva Lou has consoled her, even new mother Pearl understands--but that doesn't make it any easier. From the Bottom of the Cumberland Gap to the top of Cracker's Neck Holler, and across the ocean to the Italian Alps of her family's homeland, Ave Maria's world will never be quite the same again . . . especially now that there's a teenager smack dab in the middle of it.

Leah G. (LeahG) wrote on 10/19/2007...

I love all of this author's books. They are well written and provide a glimpse of life that is different from mine. This is a book well worth reading. Leah G.

katzpawz wrote on 7/20/2007...

Wonderful characters - clear, beautifully written narrative - a protagonist I really would like to be friends with. All three of the books in this all-too-short series have blessed my soul. I really wonder how Ave Maria and Jack Mac will make it in Tuscany! This book gets 10 stars for me!