My Cousin the Saint

A Story of Love, Miracles, and an Italian Family Reunited

About the author(s)

Justin Catanoso is a journalist who also teaches writing and editing at Wake Forest University. Since 1998, he has served as the executive editor of The Business Journal, based in Greensboro, North Carolina. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, he has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Business Week, and appeared on National Public Radio. He lives in Greensboro with his wife and their three daughters.

Reviews

“A book for history lovers. . . for students of theology, for those who question their faith, or for anyone stumbling down life’s highway.” - Cape May County Herald

“A fascinating quest for ancestry and an illuminating wrestling with faith.” - washingtonpost.com

“Worth worth reading for the travelogue alone.” - Greensboro News & Record

“A glorious book! Part spiritual journey, part detective story, part travelogue, Justin Catanoso’s engrossing new memoir shows how discovering God always leads to discovering yourself. His quest to learn about his saintly cousin leads him to a fuller and richer understanding of his faith, his family, and, ultimately, himself.” - James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints and frequent commentator for the New York Times and National Public Radio

“Justin Catanoso went to Italy in search of his canonized cousin. In finding the story of his own family, he has written a warm and candid memoir that I admire.” - Gay Talese, author of Unto the Sons

“A beautiful book that brings with it the joy and recognition of family and of faith.” - Antonio Monda, author of Do You Believe?: Conversations on God and Religion

“Glorious. . . . It’s a great story: part travelogue, part detective story, part spiritual journal, and beautifully told.” - America: The National Catholic Weekly

“Vividly brings to life one of the Church’s newest canonized saints.” - The Catholic Standard & Times

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