Crossing the Bridge: a memoir

By Bea Epstein

Crossing the Bridge weaves together 26 stories of growing up in Brooklyn during the 1940's and 50's and the author's powerful drive to leave that "ghettoed world." With each chapter, each character sketch, and each pivotal experience, Bea Epstein, guided by her work as a psychotherapist, expands the reader's understanding of the emotional meaning of her life's events and their place in the complex web of family relationships. From the recollection of her parents' journey to America as children, to the story of their painful marriage; from descriptions of the immigrant neighborhood in which she grew up, to the tragic end of her parents' lives, we travel with the author on her journey to cross the bridge out of Brooklyn.Regardless of age or cultural heritage, readers will recognize universal human themes... the conflicts in family life, the struggle for identity, and the limits of parental love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940769337
• ISBN13: 9781940769332
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Mercury HeartLink
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"