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The Road to San Donato: Fathers, Sons, and Cycling Across Italy
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About The Road To San Donato: Fathers, Sons, And Cycling
Product Description The Road to San Donato is an adventurous travel memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage by bicycle. With only the bare essentials on their backs, author Robert Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a torturous 425-mile ride from Florence, Italy, to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village hidden in the Apennine mountains from which their family emigrated a hundred years earlier. After getting lost, beaten down, and very nearly stranded, when they finally reach the village the Cocuzzos discover so much more than their own family story. For many Jews in the 1940s, the road to San Donato was one of exile; during World War II, dozens were interned in the village. When the Nazis came to ship them off to death camps, however, many of the villagers went to heroic lengths to save their lives. Walking and pedaling through this history, Robert Cocuzzo is determined to learn the role his family played at the time. The Road to San Donato is a story of fathers and sons, discovering lost "cousins," valorous history, and the challenge and exhilaration of traveling by bicycle. Review "The Road To San Donato is an absolute delight. Poignant, uplifting, powerful--a father and son journey that's part adventure, part soulful family memoir. Had me reading late into the night, not wanting it to end. Beautifully written from the first page." --Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down The House and Bitcoin Billionaires "A compelling ride-along adventure to the heart of home, family and fatherhood." - -Charles Graeber, New York Times bestselling author of T he Good Nurse and The Breakthrough "The Road to San Donato is a heart-felt, candidly told story that will surely resonate with many readers, and not just those of us from Italian families. I love that it's about a lot of things at the same time: parenting, cycling, identity, and reckoning with one's heritage. On top of that, the author's father is an absolute character like no other - they definitely broke the mold when they made him!" -- Suzy Welch, New York Times bestselling author and host of CNBC.com's "Get to Work" "This is a wonderful book, and an inspiration. I'd love to take a bike trip like this in time and space with my children." -Paul Theroux, international bestselling author "A delightful Italian travel adventure, sure to appeal to cyclists--and an ideal choice for father-son book clubs." - Booklist "The book, lovingly told and tightly paced, charts their journey, the mishaps, strains, triumphs, giving sense of a place, a history, a series of fathers, and the spinning wheel of time that binds them together." --The Boston Globe About the Author Robert Cocuzzo is an editor, writer, and author of the critically acclaimed book Tracking the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Skier Doug Coombs. He is also the longtime editor of Nantucket Magazine and has written for a number of other publications. Cocuzzo and his wife, Jenny, live with their daughter Vienna in Boston, Massachusetts. Visit him online at RobertCocuzzo.com.
