In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet.
In Crossings, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award for the Study of Human Rights, he relates what he learned as he listened.
Amid the cracked granite and boulder-strewn mountains across the California-Mexico border, two villages exist side-by-side.
Sam's crossings lead him to new friendships and enemies in territories that stretch from the established, predictable East Coast to the unsettled, wild frontier.
He lands himself accidentally in the Black Hawk War, joyfully on a steamboat to Saint Louis, and determinedly on the ever-developing National Road to Washington, DC. Sam's crossings help to shape him into someone new, but still he finds ...
At Journey's end would a new life begin?
The novel envisions the election of a President in 2016 who starts to deport 11 million US residents.