Description

Milk Glass Moon, the 3rd book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life span 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 located on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.Transporting us from Ave Maria's house in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the French Alps, from Nyc for the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon may be the story of a shifting mother-daughter relationship, of a daughter's first love and a mother's heartbreak, of an enduring union that includes its continuing problems, and of the community faced with seismic change.All of Trigiani's favorite characters are back: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's true love, who's prepared to risk protection for the unfamiliar; her closest friend and companion, bandleader Theodore Suggestion-lot, who starts a new life in New York City; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death situation. Meanwhile, surprises arise in the booming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the growing of hill woman turned savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the return of Pete Rutledge, the good-looking stranger who turned Ave Maria's world inverted in Big Cherry Holler. In this rollicking hayride of change and turmoil, Ave Maria is resulted in individuals who enter her life and stone its basis, and to places she never thought she'd go.