When a white driver critically injures a black bicyclist, the residents in a tense, gentrifying South Philadelphia neighborhood can’t decide whether to unite, hide, or explode. Ms. Rose wrestles with ways to effectively organize the community and still be true to the neighborhood she fears may have outgrown her. Carol Jones, the mother of the bicyclist, is drawn back to the neighborhood she fled years ago for posh suburbia and finds roots deeper than she realized.  Michael, the driver and recent home owner in the neighborhood, must conquer his guilt over the accident while struggling with personal betrayal.  By allowing strangers to help him, he discovers ties he didn't know he deserved. Their intersecting lives test the neighbors--established and new--in ways they never expected.

Advance praise for The Intersection:

"In this engrossing, sharp-sighted novel, Windhauser places us at the intersection of people who defy suffering even as their pain threatens to strangle them. These are strong characters, fiery and deserving of our attention, and their stories humble us when we recognize our own within even the unfamiliar."

-- April Ford, 2016 Pushcart Prize recipient, author of The Poor Children (SFWP 2015)

"In his latest novel, Windhauser depicts a Philadelphia neighborhood crackling with the tension of gentrification, and offers us a panoramic and deeply profound view of a community’s viewpoints. A beautiful, wise novel…"

--Susan Muaddi Darraj, author of A Curious Land: Stories from Home (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)