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Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers

By (author) Marcello Di Cintio

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Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize â€¢Â AÂ Globe and MailÂ Book of the Year â€¢Â AÂ CBC BooksÂ Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 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. â€œThe taxi,â€ writes Marcello Di Cintio, â€œis a border.â€ Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have metâ€”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,Â DrivenÂ 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 arenâ€™t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylanâ€™s lyrics, Di Cintioâ€™s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages,Â DrivenÂ is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, itâ€™s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.