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When you Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Adventures, Risks, Family and the Roads that Shaped my Life
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every fork in the road led somewhere worth going.
You have lived a full life. The choices, the chances, the detours you never planned. And now, from the mountaintop of experience, you find yourself looking back at all of it, wondering how it all came together. You wish someone had written it down for you. You wish you had the words to pass it on.
Charles Chuck Rothkopf did exactly that. Born in Brooklyn in 1940 to a brave young single mother who defied the expectations of her time, Chuck grew up navigating the streets of New York, the pull of family bonds, and the restless desire to forge his own path. From Brooklyn to Miami, from San Francisco to the business world and back to the people he loved most, his life unfolded not according to a master plan but through a series of forks in the road, each one taken with courage, curiosity, and a sense of humor inspired by Yogi Berra himself. When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It is a warm, lighthearted memoir about embracing uncertainty and discovering that the journey itself is the reward.
Inside these pages, you will find:
- A multigenerational story of love, resilience, and reinvention rooted in the immigrant experience
- Honest reflections on control, risk, and the wisdom that only comes with time
- An uplifting reminder that there are no true failures, only paths not yet understood
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