Mimi Power and Magnifico: an author's blog

April 18, 2013 It's just a few short days before I fly to Terrace to begin the Northern leg of the BC Book Prizes Author on Tour. In other words, there has been a lot of guilt-baking going on in this house over the past week. Husband and girls have had pie, pudding and cookies galore. I need to get out of the kitchen before none of my pants fit. So taking Mimi Power on tour is a blessing in more ways than one. I have a huge debt of gratitude to the BC Book Prizes for naming Mimi as a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize and for giving me a spot on the tour. So it may be that this blog is a bit neglected for a time, as I turn my attention to postings for the On Tour blog. I started tonight. Please join me there for the next week, who knows what's in store? http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/tour/archive

April, 2013 No sooner do they meet than young Enza Ravanelli and Ciro Lazzari are separated across what seems to be an insurmountable distance. It is 1912, and 17-year-old Ciro has been banished from his home in the Italian Alps, not for something he has done, writes Adriana Trigiani, but for something he has seen. The Shoemaker's Wife , Trigiani's fourteenth book, finds an epic romance in hard work, loyalty and sacrifice. These are the bonds that bring Trigiani's Ciro and Enza together, and keep them close as they build new lives in America. Enza's talents as a seamstress earn her a place in the wardrobe department of the Metropolitan Opera, while Ciro's entrepreneurialism and skills as a shoemaker elevate him from servitude in a humble Italian convent to eventual prosperity in the America. The Shoemaker's Wife  is filled with the scents and flavours of both Italy and America. Hot pretzels from a street vendor in New York City or a shared slice of