And the Bridge Is Love is a time­less col­lec­tion of life sto­ries about grow­ing up in a Jew­ish fam­i­ly in Detroit dur­ing the Depres­sion and becom­ing a writer in Wash­ing­ton DC. The essays range from the poignant to the hilar­i­ous, from a tale of anti-semi­tism to an account of binge eat­ing at a fam­i­ly wed­ding. Moskowitz gives ten­der obser­va­tions about unlike­ly friend­ships, trans­gres­sive love, dis­ap­point­ing plants, and sacred Jew­ish rit­u­als of the kitchen. She describes a world both mod­ern and old-fash­ioned, vivid, yet vanishing.