num_pages: 512
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.
language: English
title: Crossing California
titlecomplete: Crossing California
genres: Coming Of Age, Adult Fiction, Jewish, Humor, Novels, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Book Club
ratings_count: 2038
places: Paris, Chicago, Illinois, Evanston, Illinois, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Skokie, Illinois
publisher: Riverhead Trade