From Cannóli to Canalé

Robert Santacroce's life has traversed the tumultuous changes of the 20th century and embraced the paradigms of the new millennium. What renders this book so compelling is the series of personal transformations he underwent on his journey from his childhood and adolescence in an Italian family in New York City, to his service in Vietnam, to his rootless wanderings around the country from the late '60s through the '70s, and ultimately to his discovery of the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner and his vocation as a teacher of Eurythmy, an artist, and finally a family man. No reader of the first third of the book would ever imagine the person he would become. It is a profoundly human narrative.