" In his first novel, Finding Marco, author Ken Cancellara describes how, after years of corporate activity, the novel's protagonist (Mark Gentile) has a personal "awakening" in realizing that his ambition for material success has overshadowed his need for happiness and a life of ethics and morality. Sun-drenched memories of life as it once was in Gentile's hometown of Acerenza, Italy (which corresponds to the author's birthplace) call him back to reconnect with his roots and with the simple life he had left behind some half a century earlier. In Acerenza, Gentile took the lessons given to...

" In his first novel, Finding Marco, author Ken Cancellara describes how, after years of corporate activity, the novel's protagonist (Mark Gentile) has a personal "awakening" in realizing that his ambition for material success has overshadowed his need for happiness and a life of ethics and morality. Sun-drenched memories of life as it once was in Gentile's hometown of Acerenza, Italy (which corresponds to the author's birthplace) call him back to reconnect with his roots and with the simple life he had left behind some half a century earlier. In Acerenza, Gentile took the lessons given to...