Leesa Cross-Smith
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Evi-a classically-trained ballerina-was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line of duty on a steamy morning in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's adopted brother Dalton has moved in to help her raise six-month-old Noah. Whiskey & Ribbons is told in three intertwining, melodic voices: Evi in present day, as she's snowed in with Dalton during a freak blizzard; Eamon before his murder, as he prepares for impending fatherhood...
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The twenty-seven stories in Leesa Cross-Smith's debut short story collection Every Kiss a War are set to the sounds of 'frogs and crickets out back, steam-pulsing like a machine' and 'a sad country song that hasn't been written yet.' Men and women love and leave over cigarettes and shots of kitchen table whiskey. She takes us down Kentucky roads in the back of a pickup truck to both truculent and delicate women and rough, rambling men edged with gentleness....
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm.
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Having grown up the privileged daughter of artists, Vincent has a life that is lovely in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she's even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her Irish husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about his past...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
256 pages
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"From 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"--
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm.
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A recently divorced therapist spots a man standing on the edge of a bridge and convinces him to join her for coffee instead of jumping and the pair spend a cathartic weekend sharing secrets and angsts.