In conversations with Drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi.
Di Cintio has served as a writer-in-residence at the Calgary Public Library, the University of Calgary, and the Palestine Writing Workshop, and he teaches nonfiction writing at the annual WordsWorth youth writing residency..
His magazine writing has appeared in appeared in publications such as The International New York Times , The Walrus , Canadian Geographic , and Afar .
Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize.
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About author(s): Marcello Di Cintio is the author of four books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense , both winners of the W.
A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it\'s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.
Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you.
From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the Secret Shakespeare of Dylan\'s lyrics, Di Cintio\'s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them.
Yet these Lives aren\'t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work.
Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight.
In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us.
Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. "The taxi," writes Marcello Di Cintio , "is a border." Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met--yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones.
In conversations with Drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi
