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.
From the Hardcover edition.

Milk glass moon : a[Big Stone Gap novel

Milk Glass Moon (Big Stone Gap, #3)

Trigiani, Adriana

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

ibooks, Incorporated

Simon & Schuster UK

Pocket Books UK

Gardners Books

United States, United States of America

Simon & Schuster, [N.p.], 2020

1st, First Edition, PS, 2003

London, Eng, 2003, ©2002

February 5, 2007

'Delightful'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Can she find it in her heart to let go before it's too late? As her daughter grows up, Ave Maria can't help but feel time is slipping through her fingers. Her friends in Big Stone Gap are going through major life changes, too, and her husband seems desperate to reinvent himself in ways nobody could have predicted. Reaching into the past to find answers to the present, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and as people enter her life and rock the foundation, Ave Maria faces the true test of love: letting go.The third in the bestselling and much-loved BIG STONE GAP series from the bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick Praise for the BIG STONE GAP series:'Hilarious and romantic. I couldn't put it down'SARAH JESSICA PARKER'One of my all-time favourite novels'WHOOPI GOLDBERG ‘If you love curling up with charming tales of small towns and quirky characters, switch off with this'COSMOPOLITAN'Delightfully quirky'PEOPLE'As comforting as a mug of chamomile tea on a rainy Sunday'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Utterly addictive'GLAMOUR'As quirky and charming as her first novel. If you are not a fan already, you will be after this'COMPANY'Honest, wholesome entertainment with a spicy Deep South kick'DAILY MAIL'As warm and sweet as Southern Comfort'ELLE

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Bestselling author Trigiani completes her successful "Big Stone Gap" trilogy with a compelling audiobook of a mother and daughter, the choices they confront together, and their struggles to let go

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