Evia classically-trained ballerinawas nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the. Both are still afraid on some level to completely reveal their identities.Ĭross-Smith places mental health at the heart of this story, bringing attention to the importance of asking for help when navigating the complicated twists and turns of life. Set in contemporary Louisville, Leesa Cross-Smith’s mesmerizing first novel surrounding the death of a police officer is a requiem for marriage, friendship and family, from an author Roxane Gay has called a consummate storyteller. Interestingly enough, their revelations don’t include the basic details that Tallie is a therapist or that Emmett has a pretty sketchy public profile. The two start sharing their deepest feelings with each other, making their chance encounter extend into a whole weekend together. Grand Central, 29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-0765-4 Cross-Smith’s lackluster latest (after Half-Blown Rose ) follows four lifelong friends as they reunite for a wedding and. Parents to two young children, they balance home life, carpools, and extracurricular activities with work on WhiskeyPaper, a five-year-old online literary magazine devoted to flash fiction. They’ve been together 20 years, married for 15. Tallie, though she seems perfectly put-together, isn’t any less heartbroken than Emmett. Leesa Cross-Smith and Loran Smith met in high school. I’m not sure how that happened, but thinking back to the stories I’ve lost myself in over the past twelve months they’ve all beenin one way or anotherabout people being defiantly. It’s been a while since I read a novel that was so fully and entirely about people. The morning comes, and with it a kind of comfort and thankfulness that allows soft-spoken Emmett to reveal to Tallie not only his name but also the pain that brought him to the bridge. Whiskey & Ribbons b y Leesa Cross-Smith Yael van der Wouden. He won’t reveal his name or much else, but that doesn’t stop Tallie from inviting him to her home to spend the night. Thankfully Tallie’s bravado in approaching the stranger catches him off guard and delays him long enough that he agrees to back off and get a cup of coffee with her. A therapist by trade, she doesn’t hesitate before rushing out of her car, ignoring the traffic and the rain, to dissuade the man from jumping. While driving home from work one rainy October evening, Tallie Clark, 40 and divorced, spots a man preparing to jump from a bridge. Set in author Leesa Cross-Smith’s native Kentucky, This Close to Okay is the story of two strangers coming together to sort out their fears and disappointments.
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