The critically acclaimed novel of a compelling love affair and the decline of a once prosperous city .
Across the River is twelve-year-old Anne O\'Connor, daughter of the reigning politic.
In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks, the only way to make a living on his side of the city.
By 1969, it had dropped to twelfth.
The birthplace of rock \'n\' roll, Cleveland was an economic powerhouse and America\'s sixth-largest city in the late 1940s.
The critically acclaimed novel of a compelling love affair and the decline of a once prosperous city