A revised second edition, first published in 2025.

Travel teaches you how to arrive. It does not teach you how to stay.

In February 2007, a newly licensed therapist drives into fog-bound San Francisco with her car packed to the roof and a lifetime’s habit of leaving. She grew up in many countries, and she has never stayed anywhere for long.

Then people begin to climb the stairs to her second-floor office. Olivia, a pre-med student who has never let herself want anything her parents didn’t choose for her. Maya and Alexander, a couple trying to build one home out of two faiths and two families. Tarek, a graduate student from North Africa who loves his family too much to tell them who he is. And Caroline, who has carried what happened to her as a child for twenty years, with only one person who believed her.

Over sixteen months of sessions, setbacks and a Thursday-night group, each of them faces a crossing of their own. And their therapist discovers, more slowly than her patients do, that the hardest crossing may be the one that asks her to stay.

Written by a trauma-informed psychotherapist, The Bridges We Cross is a warm, honest novel about culture, family, healing, and the courage it takes to be known.

The Bridges We Cross

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