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.
