Crossing California is a book about these families in Chicago at the end of the '70s and into the early '80s. It seems like it is about nothing when you're reading it, but then when you get to the end the charecters are really different. Basically all their lives tie into one anothers in some strange way, so when one person changes, they are all affected. Anyways, it's good, I would recomend it.
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