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Leesa Cross-Smith

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Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and writer from Kentucky. She is the author of seven books: GOODBYE EARL, HALF-BLOWN ROSE, THIS CLOSE TO OKAY, SO WE CAN GLOW, WHISKEY & RIBBONS, EVERY KISS A WAR, and the forthcoming AS YOU WISH. HALF-BLOWN ROSE received Coups De Cœur recognition from the American Library in Paris and was the Amazon Editors’ Spotlight for June 2022, the inaugural pick for Amazon’s Editorial Director Sarah Gelman’s Book Club Sarah Selects, and the Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick for June 2022. THIS CLOSE TO OKAY was a Goodreads Choice 2021 Nominee for Best Fiction, a Book of the Month Book of the Year 2021 Nominee, a Book of the Month Early Release Pick for December 2020, the Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick for February 2021 ...more

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This Close to Okay

3.70 avg rating — 22,884 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions
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Goodbye Earl

3.51 avg rating — 3,936 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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Half-Blown Rose

3.41 avg rating — 3,289 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions
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Whiskey & Ribbons

3.81 avg rating — 2,081 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions
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So We Can Glow: Stories

3.91 avg rating — 1,321 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions
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Every Kiss a War

4.34 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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The Best Small Fictions 2015

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“You’re human, and you have to reconcile that with yourself somehow. Forgive yourself. Allow yourself to feel everything deeply, to grow and learn.”
Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay

“How sometimes your body couldn't tell the difference between not loving someone enough and loving someone too much.”
Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss a War

“After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.”
Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close To Okay

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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
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“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”
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