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MY FIFTH BOOK IS HALF-BLOWN ROSE! Coming 2022! x

THIS CLOSE TO OKAY. FEBRUARY 2, 2021.

You can preorder + add on all the things!

From the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller” comes a cathartic novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers.

On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he eventually agrees to come back to her house, where he finally, reluctantly, shares his first name: Emmett.

Over the course of the emotionally-charged weekend that follows, Tallie makes it her mission to provide a safe and comfortable space for Emmett, although she doesn’t confess that she works as a therapist. However, Emmett is not the only one who needs help—and he has secrets of his own.

Alternating between Tallie and Emmett’s perspectives as they inch closer to the truth of what brought Emmett to the bridge, This Close to Okay is an uplifting, powerful story of two strangers brought together by wild chance at the moment they need it the most.

SO WE CAN GLOW @ Do Savannah and Southern Living!

Thank you to Do Savannah and Ariel Felton for this SO WE CAN GLOW interview!

Thank you Southern Living for incl SO WE CAN GLOW on this list of Beach Reads Perfect for 2020!

SO WE CAN GLOW over @ Belletrist IG! xx

Over @ Belletrist Books on IG I talked to Karah Preiss abt SO WE CAN GLOW and men and women and writing and books! Thank you v much to Karah and Emma Roberts and Belletrist for promoting and sharing and for all of this in gen and for incl me! CHECK IT OUT!

SWCG: ALL THE RIGHT WAYS

SO WE CAN GLOW in OPRAH MAG!

The Best Books to Read While Social Distancing, According to Authors! Jasmine Guillory chose SO WE CAN GLOW as one of her picks! Thank you O! Thank you Jasmine! x

SISTERHOOD.

SO WE CAN GLOW came out a month ago! EVERYTHING IS WILD AND STRANGE! I am v grateful for books and hearts and faith and healing and keeping on keeping on. xo

HEART.

"WE, MOONS" + MY THOUGHTS ON SHORT FICTION OVER @ OXFORD AMERICAN

Image by Sanni Sahil via Unsplash

Read the first story from SO WE CAN GLOW called “We, Moons” over @ Oxford American and watch/listen to me read it too! xo

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR! YOU CAN LISTEN! JOIN US! x

Air date: Mississippi: Saturday, April 4 at 7 pm: Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Alabama: Saturday, April 4 at 9 pm: Alabama Public Radio