"Three Rivers Crossed" is a celebrated examination of the good intentions and needless secrets surrounding an unwanted birth and a cleverly woven heroic tale of the molding of a mid-20th century Afro-American female confronting the American Dream. The buildings that comprised Linda Jean Hall's childhood no longer exist; but the small enclave is forever memorialized in the memoir as the tale of the Village, an Afro-American enclave of southern migrants immersed in an ethnically diverse neighborhood on the northwest side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This book is a tribute to the shared mission...