Where She Has Gone

Returning to the Italian landscape of his acclaimed debut, The Book of Saints, Nino Ricci's Where She Has Gone is a work of uncommon emotional impact. Ricci's hero is Vittorio Innocente, a Canadian born in Italy, who after his father's death finds himself drawn to his halfsister, Rita. After a moment of disturbing connection between them, she leaves Canada for Europe; he follows her, but when they meet again in their family's Italian village, Vittorio sees at last that it is not only his sister he has been seeking -- it is their shared history their secret burdens.At once a resolution of tensions within Ricci's previous novels, and a luminous portrayal of discovery and absolution, Where She Has Gone completes one of our most haunting parables of the immigrant experience.