In a Glass House - Tapa blanda

This is the second novel in Nino Ricci's Vittorio Innocente trilogy, following the award-winning The Book of Saints. As the young Italian boy Vittorio Innocente arrives in the New World, leaving the arms of his dying mother for the troubled haven of his father, he and his half-sister Rita must make their way in a farming community whose ways are both magical and forbidding.

Nino Ricci's first novel, The Book of Saints, has been published in ten countries and was awarded aLos Angeles Times Book Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction. The three novels that form his Vittorio Innocente trilogy--The Book of Saints, In a Glass House, andWhere She Has Gone--are all available from Picador. A past president of PEN Canada, he lives in Toronto.