This collection is tantalizing and Cross-Smith is a delight.'― Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things

They stick with readers long after the book is closed. The stories contained in So We Can Glow showcase the very best of Cross-Smith's voice. 'Leesa Cross-Smith writes the way many people wish they could: ferociously, tenderly, and with a tremendous amount of heart. The stories in So We Can Glow-some long, some gone in a flash, some told over text and emails-take the wild hearts of girls and women and hold them up so they can catch the light. She evokes the pangs of loss and motherhood, the headiness and destructive potential of desire, and the pure exhilaration of being female. Leesa Cross-Smith's sensuous stories will drench readers in nostalgia for summer nights and sultry days, the intense friendships of teenage girls, and the innate bonds felt between women. Two high school friends kiss all night and binge-watch Winona Ryder movies after the death of a sister. A laundress’s life is consumed by obsession for a famous baseball player.

A love story begins over cabbages in a grocery store. Members of a cult form an unsettling chorus as they extol their passion for the same man. A woman escapes suffocating grief through a vivid fantasy life. Teenage girls sneak out on a summer night to meet their boyfriends by the train tracks.

♥ ♥ -> SO WE CAN GLOW READING GUIDE! <- ♥Ī lush, glittering short story collection exploring female obsession and desire by an award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls 'a consummate storyteller.'įrom Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories expose the glossy and matte hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fantasy, wildness and bad behavior, brokenness and fearlessness, and more. Roxane Gay Recommends 10 Books to Bring You Out of the Dark Bookshop The Best Short Story Collections Of 2020 Bustle Here Are The Best Books To Give For Mother’s Day This Year Refinery29īeach Reads Perfect For Summer Southern Living The Best Books to Read While Social Distancing According to Authors (Jasmine Guillory picked SO WE CAN GLOW!) Oprah Magazine LISTED AS ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2020! YOU CAN BUY my local indie bookstore: Carmichael’s!ĭIG! SO WE CAN GLOW on Most Anticipated/New Release lists MillionsĪlso, SO WE CAN GLOW is the Well-Read Black Girl Book Pick for May!

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