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Plot Summary of Milk Glass Moon
"This is the third book in the Big Stone Gap Series. In this latest edition, Ave Maria MacChesney continues her journey through family life including her continuing commitment to her marrige to Jack, despite temptations, and watching her daughter grow and become independent. The novel ends with Ave's daughter, Etta, reaching the age of 18 and Ave and Jack beginning a new chapter in their life."
Gwen Walker, Resident Scholar

"Transporting us from Ave Maria's home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from New York City to the Tuscani 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 other characters are back here as well. There's Jack Mac, who is Ave Maria's true love, who is willing to gamble security for the unknown. Then we have Ave Maria's best friend, Theodore Tipton, who begins life anew in New York City. There is also Iva Lou Wade Makin, the librarian, who is facing a life-or-death crisis. Meanwhile, surprises emerge in the blossoming 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. Pete still has this secret crush on Ave Maria.

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.

This story is truly all about finding oneself, and life changes with growing up and growing older as well."

Boppy, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Family, loving relations Yes
Special relationship with - daughter
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - homemaker
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male - Female
Age: - a teen - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - actor/actress/producer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
United States Yes
The US: - West
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee

Style
Person - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words - No single main character?
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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