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By Adriana Trigiani

Milk Glass Moon, the 3rd publication in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling enormous Stone hole sequence, keeps the existence tale of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the demanding situations and alterations of motherhood together with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as ample as these came upon at the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this tale takes turns that would shock and enthrall the reader.

Transporting us from Ave Maria's domestic within the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from manhattan urban to the Tuscan nation-state, Milk Glass Moon is the tale of a transferring mother-daughter dating, of a daughter's old flame and a mother's heartbreak, of an everlasting marriage that comprises its personal ongoing demanding situations, and of a neighborhood confronted with seismic change.

All of Trigiani's loved characters are again: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's real love, who's prepared to gamble defense for the unknown; her ally and confidant, bandleader Theodore Tip-ton, who starts off a brand new existence in big apple urban; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death concern. in the meantime, surprises emerge within the blossoming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the maturing of mountain lady became savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the go back of Pete Rutledge, the good-looking stranger who became Ave Maria's international the other way up in significant Cherry Holler.

In this rollicking hayride of upheaval and alter, Ave Maria is ended in locations she by no means dreamed she may move, and to those that input her lifestyles and rock its starting place. As Ave Maria reaches into the earlier to discover solutions to the current, readers will stick with her each step of how, rooting for the onetime city spinster who embraced love and made a kinfolk. Milk Glass Moon is set the facility of affection and its abiding fact, and captures Trigiani at her so much lyrical and heartfelt.

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