Robert Mattia

When we were young Robert Mattia

This book chronicles the life and times of a young man and a woman who established a family and network of immigrants after living worlds apart conquering their individual struggles for survival during a destructive war. It is a story of how by chance they came together and started a new life in the land of opportunity.

It is an epic story of youth, survival, bravery, and ancestry. It recalls the early years of a young boy and girl in Italy born into modest beginnings and who learned how to survive a war. It chronicles how this boy filled with youthful adventure evolved into a relentlessly hard-working and dedicated family man, and how his untimely death impacted a loving family. It is filled with humor, serendipity, danger, hope and love only to end in pain, sorrow, and new beginnings. It is a story of life and legacy.