"When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory in order to prepare for motherhood. We Are Bridges is the realization of this journey, a memoir that weaves personal narrative and speculation together in order to rescue the lives of Cassandra's great-grandparents, Mary Magdalene Magee and Burt Bridges, from historical erasure. Shifting between present-day Los Angeles and the early twentieth-century...