Marv Hoffman

Providential

History & Biography

“In the early pages of Tom Del Prete’s memoir, we are treated to an evocative, vivid account of growing up in an embracing (mostly) Italian family in Providence, Rhode Island’s Catholic community. . . . The focus zooms out from there to paint a compelling portrait of the forces that shape the author’s intellectual, moral, and emotional development, a kind of portrait of the educator as a young man.”