Author: David Hirshberg

Jacqueline Friedland, author of Counting Backwards and The Stockwell Letters

“The brilliance of CROSSING THE BRONX lies in Hirshberg’s ability to fuse personal stakes with systemic critique. The novel’s central plot, influencing Robert Moses to reroute a highway for financial gain, could easily dominate the narrative. Instead, it becomes a lens through which Hirshberg explores more intimate questions: What does it mean to inherit someone else’s moral failures? Can truth still matter in a world where lies have long paid the bills? With vivid prose and a compassionate but unsparing eye, Hirshberg honors the complexities of the era and the people who lived it.”