Crossing California (Paperback)

By Adam Langer
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Description

Set in Chicago's Jewish neighborhood of West Rogers Park, this is the story of three families--adults and children alike--coming of age during the tumultuous, turbulent days of the Iran hostage crisis. At the close of the 1970s, the Rovners, the Wasserstroms, and the Wills-Silvermans will have to shed their pasts to cross into that new, shining decade of hope: the 80s.

About the Author

Adam Langer has worked extensively as a print journalist, film producer, and playwright, and has been featured on NPR, CNN Headline News, Fox News, and E! Entertainment Television. Langer is a former senior editor of Book magazine and a recipient of a National Arts Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University.

Praise for Crossing California…

An ambitious debut novel. (Cleveland Plain Dealer) A dazzling debut novel. (Chicago Tribune) Should come with a warning label: 'Abandon all nostalgia, ye who enter here'...brutally funny. (Christian Science Monitor) A novel of such heartfelt audacity that this reviewer feels lucky to sing its praises. (Oregonian)

Product Details ISBN-10: 1594480818
ISBN-13: 9781594480812
Published: Riverhead Trade, 04/01/2005
Pages: 512
Language: English