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. She is the author of So We Can Glow (Grand Central Publishing, 2020), Whiskey & Ribbons (Hub City Press, 2018), Every Kiss a War (Mojave River Press, 2014), and the forthcoming This Close to Okay (Grand Central Publishing, 2021). I finished reading So We Can Glow yesterday and needed to. 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. LEESA CROSS-SMITH is a homemaker and writer from Kentucky. So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith In Which I Gush About All the Girl Magic August 29, 2020.

Two high school friends kiss all night and binge-watch Winona Ryder movies after the death of a sister. A laundress’ life is consumed by obsession for a famous baseball player. A love story begins over cabbages in a grocery store. L eesa Cross-Smith captures what it feels like to be a freshman with a crush in her short story collection So We Can Glow.The stories are full of candy-sweet sensations: fruity drinks bubblegum coconut and buttercream fragrant gardens on humid summer nights lipgloss, lipgloss, lipgloss. 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. You can read this before So We Can Glow: Stories PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī lush, glittering short story collection exploring female obsession and desire by an award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller.” 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. Here is a quick description and cover image of book So We Can Glow: Stories written by Leesa Cross-Smith which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: So We Can Glow: Stories by Leesa Cross-Smith