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  <title><![CDATA[Crossing California]]></title>
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  <default_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.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adam Langer]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Until recently, Langer was known primarily as a playwright and the author of a film festival compendium, but that's about to change. Reviewers have heaped the kind of praise on <em>Crossing California</em> for which most first-time novelists would sacrifice their coffee and nicotine. Critics zeroed in on Lan...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459483">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[adam langer is OBSESSIVELY attentive to detail. the sheer number of pronouns in this book is probably more than in any book i've ever read. he faithfully, resolutely, precisely &quot;reps the hood&quot;, not only his hood, but his hood, west rogers park, at a very specific point in time--1979-1981, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69297448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is incredible! It takes place in Chicago from 1979-1981. It is the story of a small number of people whose lives are all intertwined in various ways. I thought it was really fun to read because of all of the places that are mentioned that I live around or know about. Also, I think that the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36747336">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 21 16:07:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I grew up in the West Rogers Park neighborhood that served as the setting for this book. Although my Chicago days were slightly prior to the time line in the story, many of the places mentioned in the novel were real to me and brought back many memories of growing up in this part of the big city. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40621624">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 18:37:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever since I started working in West Rogers Park, I've wanted to understand its past, present, and future more than ever.  This book, for a secular reader, is the ultimate answer to fulfill that curiousity.  It is rich with textured Chicagoans interwoven into a thick quilt of schmaltz, chuzpah, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51753904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34737099">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Crossing California revealed both the complexities and basic elements of human nature and captured a very distinct mood in American history.  Although the novel may have intended to capture a specific time and mood in Chicago, I definitely think it reflects a relatable mood inherent in all Americans...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34737099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19186498">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I started this book about twenty-seven times, and always got turned off in the first three pages because of the &quot;normal life in the shadow of the hostage crisis&quot; frame.  Plus, the name &quot;Muley,&quot; and eighth graders lying about giving hickies.  If there is anything that doesn't s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19186498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10487368">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book jumped out at me as I was browsing at Borders. I had never heard of it and didn't know much of what to expect. The book is set during the late 70's/ early 80's in a suburb of Chicago. The neighborhood is pretty much central to the story and a character in it's own right. The weird coincide...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10487368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5664333">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the weirdest confluence of events (is that right?  eh, don't tell me if it's not; I like the way it sounds), our July bookgroup choice was Crossing California.  We received it on Thursday the 14th, a mere three days before I had tickets to go see Katie in an adaptation of the selfsame book!  I st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5664333">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="764679">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw Jonathan Safran Foer speak at a reading a couple of years ago, and he mentioned that there are a lot of books that you read and like, or even that you love, but there are only very few books that you read and you feel as if they were written especially for you.  I felt like this book was writt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/764679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76816928">
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 05 10:11:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I'm a bit conflicted with this book wiht how I feel about it.  It kept me interested as I was reading it (the entire time), and I even laughed out loud at several parts.  At the same time, I felt as though it just ends without really knowing what happens to the characters.  It is as if the auther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76816928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26402691">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 03 21:27:16 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is a meandering tour through two generations of distinct, yet intertwining Chicago families. My favorite character, by far, was the thoroughly unlikeable Lana Rovner, possibly the most annoying 7th grader I've ever met in fiction or reality. Lana manages to be both a manipulative and ambi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26402691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50274707">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So if I took this book to be the definition of mankind this is what I would have learned: When you are in middle school you are sad and troubled and overly concerned about the world, when you are in high school you are smarter than all adults and you only think about sex, when you are an adult you s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50274707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38859316">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 02 12:11:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truly an excellent book, and one that makes for a relatively quick read (despite its thickness). Each chapter gives a seemingly effortless glimpse inside the lives of the novel's many characters, all of whom are as layered and complex as, well, real people. Strangely enough, this book made me nostal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38859316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17951085">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i fucking love this book.  i also love nostalgia for the late 70's/early 80's chicago, right as i was being born.  this book is about when and where i was born, in jewish western rogers park in chicago.  there's a map in the front that includes landmarks that i actually remember from being a wee kid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17951085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18749549">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was recommended this book by someone that lives in the neighborhood where the book takes place. Ironically, after reading the book, I moved into a neighborhood that is right next to where the book takes place. The neighborhood is Rogers Park which is in north Chicago and is a highly Jewish neighbo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18749549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm adding this book to my list of favorite Chicago stories (California refers to the street that divides a Rogers Park neighborhood). What a great cast of characters! I think Michelle Wasserstrom is one of the most richly drawn characters I've read in a long time. She'll remind you of someone you'v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3346990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Crossing California is set between the end of 1979 and the beginning of 1981, and follows the interconnected lives of teenagers from three families, all with grandiose plans for their lives.  Combining elements of Catcher In The Rye, Freaks and Geeks, Saul Bellow and E.L. Doctorow, this novel is som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62523284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books where there's not really a plot -- it just follows a number of characters for a length of time and you become immersed in their lives and how they all intersect. At 500 pages, it's a little long, but after a while I got so caught up with the characters that it didn't matte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49765305">more...</a>]]></body>
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