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Leesa Cross-Smith

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Born

in Kentucky, The United States

Website

http://www.leesacrosssmith.com

Twitter

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Genre

Fiction

Influences

Jane Austen, The Brontës, Banana Yoshimoto

Member Since

August 2007

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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 — 22,984 ratings — published 2021 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodbye Earl 3.51 avg rating — 4,029 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half-Blown Rose 3.41 avg rating — 3,307 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whiskey & Ribbons 3.81 avg rating — 2,087 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So We Can Glow: Stories 3.91 avg rating — 1,320 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Kiss a War 4.35 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Small Fictions 2015 by Robert Olen Butler (Goodreads Author) (Guest Editor), Tara Lynn Masih (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Leesa Cross-Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Barrier Reef Is Dying but so Are We really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shorts, Volume One by Michelle Tudor (Editor), Beth Hahn (Contributor), Jae Kim (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As You Wish: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: feelings, human, mood, pain

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“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

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

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The Four Winds

by Kristin Hannah

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The Death of Vivek Oji

by Akwaeke Emezi

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How the Penguins Saved Veronica

by Hazel Prior

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The Turn of the Key

by Ruth Ware

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The Push

by Ashley Audrain

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Luster

by Raven Leilani

3 votes, 6.1%

Leave the World Behind

by Rumaan Alam

3 votes, 6.1%

Hieroglyphics

by Jill McCorkle

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The Seven Doors

by Agnes Ravatn

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This Close to Okay

by Leesa Cross-Smith

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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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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.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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