This is the second book in the Nino Ricci trilogy which began with “Lives of the Saints”. After travelling from Italy, Vitto and his baby sister arrive in Canada to begin life in Mersea, a farming community of transplanted Italians in Southwestern Ontario. Vitto hardly knows his father Mario, ...
I have clicked four stars, but to me, this final book in The Lives of the Saints trilogy deserves 3 ½ stars. Where She Has Gone is better than In a Glass House, but not as good as the first, Lives of the Saints. It took me a long time to read this book, especially during the sagging middle, where...
This was Ricci’s first novel, published in 1990. It is the story of Vittorio Innocente, told in his words in three novels of which this is the first. When we meet Vitto, he is a seven year old boy living in the small Italian village of Valle del Sol with his wildly independent mother Christina an...