Crossing California

Contemporary Urban Fiction

Author: Adam Langer

Poignant, ambitious, and tremendously fun, Crossing California is the fiction discovery of the season-a novel about two generations of family and friendship in Chicago from November 1979 through January 1981. In 1979 California Avenue, in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, separates the upper-middle-class Jewish families from the mostly middle-class Jewish residents….Read More

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