Spanning continents and centuries, Bridges braids history and fiction to reveal how bridges are both feats of engineering and vessels of memory. From the Roman Pont du Gard to the Millau Viaduct, from the Drina to the Bloor Street Viaduct and Maputo–Katembe, the book follows workers, engineers, nuns, poets, truckers, and migrants whose lives converge on steel, stone, rope, and water. Lyrical and deeply researched, it explores connection and rupture as well as power, faith, grief, love, and labour and shows how motion is emotion and how every crossing changes us. A luminous meditation on the architectures that carry us between past and future.