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. … 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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The characters came alive to me and made me want to be involved in their lives. Loved the relationships the main character had with her daughter, her best friend, her male friend, her husband, and so many more.
In reading Milk Glass Moon back in 2006, I was overjoyed to know Adriana’s beloved characters from Big Stone Gap and Big Cherry Holler were back. Adriana weaving her family’s life experiences into her novels, combined with these wonderful, familiar characters and travel from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Northern Italy to NYC to the Tuscan …
Part of a series and loved it.
I have read all of her books. She creates memorable characters & vivid places.
I love her books. You get a little history of immigrants. A little bit of romance. Tragedy. You never want her stories to end. You want to follow her characters through to another book and another.
Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and Jack Mac’s daughter Etta is growing up and growing up fast. Ave Maria is disappointed that she doesn’t have the relationship with Etta that she had with her mom. All of Ave Maria’s friends are back and faces issues of their own. The story takes the reader to New York, the Italian Alps and the Tuscan countryside. …
I love the Big Stone Gap Series. My mother also grew up in SW Virginia about 1 hr away from Big Stone Gap. I spent every childhood summer there in SW VA with my extended family ( grandparents and cousins). Adriana captures the Appalachian culture and small town life with dignity and grace- giving us true characters not characterizations!
The book was another intriguing book by Trigianni
Enchanting book. I loved it!
Another good book by this author!
Easy read for afternoons.
As usual, I enjoy all her books.
Lovely book! This was an easy read, as all her books have been. This book would not be for everyone, but I loved the continuation of the consistent family thread through so many of her books. It is a “feel good” book – almost like comfort food – for when I am tired of reading history or more detailed books (i. e., Ken Follette, James Michener, …
Love the characters,settings. It’s great to follow these people through the years and see their story unfold.
I love this author. Have read almost everything she has written. Extra special to me was “The Shoemaker’s Wife”.
Love her books
Could not put it down. Read all 4 books in the series.