bookbinders

"Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence"--Provided by publisher.

Anna, the daughter of an old-fashioned bookbinder who values skill over speed, tries to help her father when her mother goes into labor the night before an important project is due.