Driven - Marcello Di Cintio - 2021
The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers



By: Marcello Di Cintio
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 08-03-21
Categories: Biography, Politics & Social Sciences, Anthropology
Language: English
Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo



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.

"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. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. 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.

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. Yet these lives aren't defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and 16-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.

©2021 Marcello Di Cintio (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books





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