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4	''Where She Has Gone'' is a 1997 novel by Nino Ricci. It is the third and final installment in the ''Lives of the Saints'' trilogy.
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6	Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after his father's death. Uneasy with their new proximity in each other's lives, they are at first restrained. But gradually what is unspoken between them comes closer to the surface, setting in motion a course of events that will take Victor back to Valle del Sole in Italy, where the story began. It is there, in the place he left twenty years earlier, that he confronts his past, its secrets and its revelations.
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9	!! Book contains examples of:
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11	* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Subverted. Even after [[spoiler: Mario's death]], the remaining Innocentes still living in Mersea are not quite happy, though family fights have greatly reduced now that [[spoiler: Mario's]] attitude won't provoke one.
12	* AttemptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Victor slits his wrists in the bathtub, which almost takes. He's discovered by a downstairs neighbour who immediately calls the police. Victor eventually wakes up in a hospital bed.]]
13	* TheAtoner: If John is in fact [[spoiler: Rita's biological father]], he certainly fits this trope big time. Even Victor surmises that John likely went through some trouble to insert himself into [[spoiler: Rita's life so as to make for all the years he's abandoned her.]]
14	* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: A figurative example. Rita throws a birthday party for herself which Elena, John and some other university friends attend to. Victor also shows up, but has a hard time feeling any content, because Rita's twentieth birthday also happens to mark twenty years since their mother Cristina's death.
15	* BittersweetEnding: More of a DownerEnding, but nothing ouright tragic happens. Vittorio leaves Valle del Sole once again. John, despite hinting about being [[spoiler: Rita's father.]], leaves Rita [[spoiler: again.]] After his BungledSuicide attempt, Victor returns to Africa, possibly forever, and because of the long distance, he and Rita eventually become emotionally separate, any brother-sister closeness they have built in the past two books having disappeared.
16	* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: Victor has sex with Rita in a HeadbuttOfLove moment.]]
17	* {{Jerkass}}: Vittorio's return to Valle del Sole instantly re-triggers the villagers to gossip about Cristina's affair. And when ''Rita'' shows up, they instantly recognize her as Cristina's affair baby, and the gossip gets a little worse. Downplayed, in which the gossip has little effect on the now-adult half-siblings, and therefore has little bearing to the plot.
18	* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Vittorio points out Rita's strong resemblance to their mother, with the exception of her blue eyes. Lampshade by the Valle del Sole villagers, who also catch on to this resemblance, which lets them identify her as Cristina's affair baby.
19	* PetTheDog: A posthumuous example by Vittorio's father, Mario. In his will, one of his more flexible requests he makes to Vittorio is to use his inheritance to help Rita if she needs it. Despite the fact that Mario, while alive, has always seen Rita as nothing more than a crushing reminder of Cristina's betrayal, it's kind of heartwarming to see that he at least had ''some'' concern for her well-being before death.
20	* RememberTheNewGuy: Luisa, Vittorio's short-lived love interest while in Valle del Sole, was apparently present during the events of ''{{Literature/Lives of the Saints}}'', but was never outright mentioned. Justifed, as she was a toddler in that time, and wouldn't have any bearing to the plot anyway.

Context Literature / WhereSheHasGone