By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, "Crossroads" is the first volume of a trilogy, "A Key to All Mythologies", that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Complete in itself, set in a historical moment of moral crisis, and reaching back to the early twentieth century, "Crossroads" serves as a foundation for a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.