Three foreign sales of Adam Langer’s CROSSING CALIFORNIA, a hilarious first novel, set in a primarily Jewish neighborhood of Chicago where classes are separated by California Avenue, telling the stories of three families with teenage children; to Alexander Fest at Rowohlt, in an enthusiastic pre-emptive offer, by Jacqueline LeDonne at Marly Rusoff & Assoc. (German language); to Prometheus/Bert Bakker, in another enthusiastic pre-emptive offer, by Lisa Queen at Marly Rusoff & Assoc (Dutch); and to Otava Publishers, in a third enthusiastic pre-emptive offer, also by Lisa Queen (Finnish).