Cover image for Driven : the secret lives of taxi drivers / by Marcello Di Cintio.
TITLE:
Driven : the secret lives of taxi drivers / by Marcello Di Cintio.
Alternate Title:
Secret lives of taxi drivers
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Windsor, Ont. : Biblioasis,
Physical Description:
276 p.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
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. 'A taxi,' writes Marcello Di Cintio, 'is a border.' Inside every cab is a space both private and public: accessible to all, and yet, once the doors close, strangely intimate, as two strangers who might otherwise never have met share a five or fifty minute trip. In a series of interviews with Canadian taxi 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, Di Cintio seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the untold lives of the people who take us where we want to go.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781771963848