4,630 Miles Traveled

An Immigration, Assimilation & Love Story

This book is about immigration, assimilation and the keeping of a promise. Stories feature Piandelagotti Italy, my birth town, the reasons for our immigration and my return trips to Italy. Stories also describe Highwood, our new American home, and its Italian community. And lastly, also detailed, is my late son’s request, to document the Lamberti immigration journey, made to me eight months before he died, making it a love story.

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Reviews

“A very readable story of self-sacrifice touched with humor. A seriously commendable, beautifully written, in memory of a son.”

— L. Johnson – Educator

“The final chapters about Christopher are powerful – as are the remembrances of the parents.”

— Jay Amberg – Partner, Amika Press

“A story of one man’s personal promise.

As the title suggests, this is a book about a journey—but the distance bridges far more than one family’s immigration experience post-World War II. From a small Italian mountain village to a closely knit, midwestern US community, author Maurizio Lamberti tells a personal story of transition, connection, resilience, and return. 

Lamberti’s easy storytelling style brings you there, alongside his childhood escapades, as he paints the scenes of bucolic life and tries to understand why his parents left Piandelagotti. Now on an adult mission to satisfy his own dying son’s wishes, Lamberti goes home again to answer questions and rediscover his family roots. He recounts his stories with sensitive detail, humor, sadness, and a spectrum of emotion that resonate with anyone’s life experience.

Readers will appreciate 4,630 Miles for its simple honesty and the arc of its tales that challenge faith and fate, ultimately connecting dots between continents, generations, and—most intimately—between father and son.”

— Judy Friedman- Author, editor, university instructor, reading & writing coach