Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California.
Brought together in a bouillabaisse of voices, Crossing California will make you.
Worlds collide and commingle: the neo-hippies with the rednecked farmers; the urban sophisticates with the quirky desert dwellers; the Hollywood power brokers with the outsider artists.
He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally weird and wonderful.
Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California