Milk Glass Moon by Adriana Trigiani

Author:Adriana Trigiani
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781588362841
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2002-09-16T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“Don’t I look older than I am?” Etta says proudly as she looks at her new passport photo.

“You look fifteen because you are fifteen,” I tell her.

“You’re no fun.” Etta smiles and goes upstairs to finish packing.

Isn’t time flying fast enough for my daughter? Jack has been teaching her how to drive; the bottle of Mr. Bubble that has been a staple in our bathroom since she was a girl has been replaced by vanilla bath beads; and the cupcake tins that used to hold her pebbles, fishhooks, and spare change are filled with different colors of eye shadow and lip gloss. What other road signs do we need to direct us toward womanhood?

I promised Etta that we would go back to Italy by her fifteenth summer, and she has held me to it. Of course, I don’t need much encouragement when it comes to Italy, and Jack needs even less. He hasn’t been back since our honeymoon, and he wants to take his Italian cooking to the next level. To do that, he needs to be in its country of origin.

I’ve convinced Iva Lou to go with us this time (to fulfill her life-long dream of seeing It-lee and also to celebrate the fact that she’s been cancer-free for two years). Lyle has begged off; the only foreign place he wants to go is Hawaii, so Iva Lou promised him a trip next year. She’s already had a conversation with local tour organizer/high school guidance counselor Jack “Nobody Comes Home Without a Lei” Gibbs.

I invited Theodore to join us as well, but he and Max took a share in a house on New York’s Long Island for the summer weekends. I’ll have to send them lots of postcards to make them jealous.

Etta has dated the same boy for a year, a nice kid named Dakota Clasby. She’s gone to school with him all of her life, and the part I like best is that she likes him, but it’s as much a friendship as a romance. Jack thinks I’m nuts and says I don’t see what’s really going on. But Etta talks to me about him, and I listen, and I don’t see any need to worry. Besides, she gets excellent grades and even had an internship with the Thompson & Litton architectural firm in Norton. As much as she loves astronomy, she has come to love building design and construction more (thanks to her father!).

The planning of our trip has brought out the true librarian in Iva Lou. She has been packing for six months. She kept a log for three weeks to figure out the exact amounts of shampoo, soap, and personal-hygiene items she uses over the course of twenty-one days, so she’ll have all she needs. She read an article on how to roll clothes instead of folding them square (it also involves tissue paper—don’t ask). She has an adapter for her blow-dryer, a mini tool kit for breakdowns, and a cosmetics case that looks like Doc Daugherty’s satchel, filled with small vials and tubes.

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