Henry Carter Hull

A graphic-novel retelling of Victor Hugo's story, in which strong Quasimodo, stowed away in the bell tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and treated like a monster, meets a kind Gypsy girl, Esmeralda, and becomes an unexpected hero.

Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home during Emperor Napoleon III's renovation of Paris and while she stakes her claim in the basement she begins to write letters to her dead husband and is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried for thirty years.

"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...