Milk Glass Moon
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This is the third and last in the Ave Maria series by Triggiani.
In this book she gets to visit her roots in Italy, finding things out about herself on the journey...
Amazon Editorial Review:
Transporting us from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia to the Italian Alps, New York City and the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon is the utterly enthralling story of a shifting mother daughter relationship. A daughter's first love, a mother's heartbreak, an enduring marriage facing its own ongoing challenges, and a community faced with seismic changes, all are deep at the heart of Adriana Trigiani's new novel. The third in her bestselling Big Stone Gap series, it continues the life story of Ave Maria as she faces the joys and demands of motherhood with her trademark humour and honesty. Reaching into the past to find answers to the present, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation. MILK GLASS MOON is about the power of love and its abiding truth, and captures Trigiani at her most lyrical, affectionate and heartfelt.
In this book she gets to visit her roots in Italy, finding things out about herself on the journey...
Amazon Editorial Review:
Transporting us from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia to the Italian Alps, New York City and the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon is the utterly enthralling story of a shifting mother daughter relationship. A daughter's first love, a mother's heartbreak, an enduring marriage facing its own ongoing challenges, and a community faced with seismic changes, all are deep at the heart of Adriana Trigiani's new novel. The third in her bestselling Big Stone Gap series, it continues the life story of Ave Maria as she faces the joys and demands of motherhood with her trademark humour and honesty. Reaching into the past to find answers to the present, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation. MILK GLASS MOON is about the power of love and its abiding truth, and captures Trigiani at her most lyrical, affectionate and heartfelt.
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One of a great selection of titles passed on to me by FireOpal, delivered to me personally by her husband yesterday. Thankyou they are much appreciated and once read will continue to travel somehow.
The final volume of Adriana Trigiani’s Big Stone Gap trilogy continues the story with all the wonderful characters from the previous volumes of life in Big Stone Gap Virginia. The main characters Ave Maria and Jack MacChesney are still facing challenges within their marriage. This time they are learning to cope with what happens as their daughter Etta turns from a child into a woman and their relationship with her changes.
It was a slow story to develop from book one but with the protagonist Ave Maria’s development from spinster, to marriage and discovery of her Italian heritage I was left wanting to know how her life had changed by reading the next volume. Big Cherry Holler finds Ave Maria and Jack eight years later and it is a gentle continuation of the ups and downs of their marriage and is again set both in America and the land of Ave Maria’s forefathers, Italy.
So to the third and I feel best volume continuing Ave Maria’s life story as she faces the changing mother daughter relationship with Etta and finally learns about the power of love. Once again we are transported from the mountains of Virginia to the Italian countryside and this time also to New York City. We are also kept up to date with big changes within the community of big stone Gap itself, where time has changed since Ave Maria the local spinster first took over the town pharmacy from the man she knew as her father.
By the end of these three novels I felt I knew the characters personally and actually enjoyed the trilogy more than I expected too, liking each volume just a little more!
I think it is possible to read each of the Big Stone Gap novels as stand alone stories but I would recommend reading all three to gain a full insight into the inhabitants of this southern town.
It was a slow story to develop from book one but with the protagonist Ave Maria’s development from spinster, to marriage and discovery of her Italian heritage I was left wanting to know how her life had changed by reading the next volume. Big Cherry Holler finds Ave Maria and Jack eight years later and it is a gentle continuation of the ups and downs of their marriage and is again set both in America and the land of Ave Maria’s forefathers, Italy.
So to the third and I feel best volume continuing Ave Maria’s life story as she faces the changing mother daughter relationship with Etta and finally learns about the power of love. Once again we are transported from the mountains of Virginia to the Italian countryside and this time also to New York City. We are also kept up to date with big changes within the community of big stone Gap itself, where time has changed since Ave Maria the local spinster first took over the town pharmacy from the man she knew as her father.
By the end of these three novels I felt I knew the characters personally and actually enjoyed the trilogy more than I expected too, liking each volume just a little more!
I think it is possible to read each of the Big Stone Gap novels as stand alone stories but I would recommend reading all three to gain a full insight into the inhabitants of this southern town.
Journal Entry 5 by LindyLouMac at A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, November 26, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (11/30/2009 UTC) at A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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En route to a Bookcrossing friend Tregossip as part of a Bookswap.
Happy reading
LindyLouMac
En route to a Bookcrossing friend Tregossip as part of a Bookswap.
Happy reading
LindyLouMac
arrived to-day as part of a bookswap from LindyLouMac That was quick and thanks so much.
have read the other 2 in the Ave Marie series of 3 and can't wait to get into this one
have read the other 2 in the Ave Marie series of 3 and can't wait to get into this one
Journal Entry 7 by Tregossip from St. Austell, Cornwall United Kingdom on Thursday, January 14, 2010
Whilst I enjoyed, not the page turner I expected following Big Stone Gap and Big Cherry Holler.
Some of quirky characters were starting to loose their appeal in this 3rd volume - but hey thats only my opinion
Now where next?
Some of quirky characters were starting to loose their appeal in this 3rd volume - but hey thats only my opinion
Now where next?
Journal Entry 8 by Tregossip at Cornwall Cancer Care Charity Shop in St. Austell, Cornwall United Kingdom on Monday, February 1, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (2/1/2010 UTC) at Cornwall Cancer Care Charity Shop in St. Austell, Cornwall United Kingdom
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Good luck book
Good luck book