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A review by katekate_reads_
So We Can Glow: Stories by Leesa Cross-Smith
5.0
I loved this book. After finishing, I sat dazed on my couch feeling book hungover. I’ve been struggling a little lately with my attention span. It’s hard to read when I keep pulling myself out to check the news and twitter over and over. So - I decided to try a short story collection. And next thing I knew, I had successfully set my phone down and read for a couple hours.
The writing in these stories really blew me away - sometimes feeling more like poetry but in an accessible way. There are sentences I had to stop to reread to myself a few times because they were just that good.
And to quote the jacket copy description of the stories because it’s better than what I could write: “Leesa Cross-Smith’s sensuous stories — some long, some gone in a flash, some told over text and emails — drench readers in nostalgia for summer nights and sultry days. They recall the intense friendships of teenage girls and the innate bonds between mothers, the first heady rush of desire, and the pure exhilaration of womanhood, all while holding up the wild souls of women so they can catch the light.”
Thank you so much to Grand Central for the gifted book to read and review.
The writing in these stories really blew me away - sometimes feeling more like poetry but in an accessible way. There are sentences I had to stop to reread to myself a few times because they were just that good.
And to quote the jacket copy description of the stories because it’s better than what I could write: “Leesa Cross-Smith’s sensuous stories — some long, some gone in a flash, some told over text and emails — drench readers in nostalgia for summer nights and sultry days. They recall the intense friendships of teenage girls and the innate bonds between mothers, the first heady rush of desire, and the pure exhilaration of womanhood, all while holding up the wild souls of women so they can catch the light.”
Thank you so much to Grand Central for the gifted book to read and review.