Leesa Cross-Smith's Blog, page 9
March 17, 2020
March 10, 2020
SO WE CAN GLOW is out today! SO WE CAN GLOW reviewed in the NEW YORK TIMES!
Avail wherever books are sold! Dig IndieBound! And there’s an ebook and an audiobook too!
And and SWCG was reviewed in the NYT and it’s a dreeeeam! xo
Though the 42 stories here often masquerade as slices of domestic life, the scale of the emotional trajectories is treated with the weight of the epic. They are sexy and sly. The dialogue winks and sparks on the page, making every story feel like a flirt. The collection overloads the senses. Even the “sunset light ached,” “lime tastes like good luck,” a woman lusts after a man who stinks of “hot wild onions in burnt brown-sugar dirt,” and pleasure can be found when you “lift up” after pressing on a “yellowish-blue, purple-black bruise”: Cross-Smith’s descriptions are filled with equal amounts of violence and tenderness.
March 7, 2020
March 3, 2020
SWCG: MAGIC.
"The magic of So We Can Glow is that no matter who you are, no matter your circumstances, no matter your gender identity, when reading this book you become the girls and women in these pages. You hope their hopes, dream their dreams, fantasize and love alongside them…”
February 21, 2020
February 15, 2020
February 7, 2020
February 1, 2020
SO WE CAN GLOW is on some lovely lists and is the well-read black girl may book pick plus a v cozy WHISKEY & RIBBONS SNUGGLE UP BUNDLE!
Sisters from AARP: New Reads From Your Favorite Sister Scribes! Thank you, Sisters from AARP!
Refinery29: Books By Black Women We Can’t Wait To Read In 2020! Thank you, Stephanie Long and Refinery29! xo
Well-Read Black Girl May Book Pick! Thank you, Well-Read Black Girl! xo
