Andrea & Francesca Santoro: A Biography tells the intertwining stories of two people born just a few miles apart in the hills of Calabria, Italy, who would not meet until years later in Toronto, Canada. Andrea grew up on a self-sufficient farm in Comicelle, crossed the Atlantic as a boy of nine when his father moved the family to Argentina, and eventually made his way to Canada in 1965 in search of yet another new beginning. Francesca grew up in Rende with ten siblings, left home at ten to work with the nuns in Rome — where her grandfather, a Titanic survivor, had paved the way — and arrived in Toronto in 1967. They met through the Italian immigrant community, married in a December snowstorm in 1969, and honeymooned for five months in Argentina before returning to build their life in Etobicoke. The book follows their decades of hard work, homebuilding, and parenting — raising son Sammy, who became a technology entrepreneur, and daughter Nancy, a nurse whose skills would prove essential during Francesca's heart surgery and in caring for her own medically complex son Angelo. Filled with vivid family stories across three continents and closing with Andrea and Francesca in their early eighties, still tending their garden and gathering their family around the table, this is a biography of two extraordinary ordinary people.