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SWCG: TOO MUCH.

February 15, 2020 Leesa Cross-Smith
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In So We Can Glow

SO WE CAN GLOW BOOK TOUR!

February 7, 2020 Leesa Cross-Smith
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In So We Can Glow

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!

February 1, 2020 Leesa Cross-Smith
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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

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W&R Snuggle Up Bundle Available @ HUB CITY PRESS!

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SO WE CAN GLOW is on ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION'S 10 SOUTHERN BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ IN 2020 and WELL-READ BLACK GIRL'S 20 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ IN 2020!

January 11, 2020 Leesa Cross-Smith
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Thank you AJC!

Thank you Well-Read Black Girl! xo

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SO WE CAN GLOW is included in THE MILLIONS Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview!

January 8, 2020 Leesa Cross-Smith
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Here! Thanks v much The Millions! xo

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SO WE CAN GLOW is on Buzzfeed's Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2020 List!

January 7, 2020 Leesa Cross-Smith
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HERE! Alongside a LOT of book beauties! Thanks Buzzfeed! x

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ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF SO WE CAN GLOW!

November 25, 2019 Leesa Cross-Smith
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@ Grand Central!

@ Goodreads!

xo

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COZY! COZY! COZY!

September 19, 2019 Leesa Cross-Smith
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OXFORD AMERICAN: SOUTH WORDS! Little Rock, March 31, 2020!

August 25, 2019 Leesa Cross-Smith
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More deets here! Dig!

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SO WE CAN GLOW COVER REVEAL!

July 11, 2019 Leesa Cross-Smith
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I LOVE IT! IT’S SO PRETTY! And you read more abt it below and you can preorder it from yr local indie or from my local indie! xoxo https://www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/book/9781538715338

A lush, glittering short story collection exploring female obsession and desire by an award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller."

From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories expose the glossy and matte hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fantasy, wildness and bad behavior, brokenness and fearlessness, and more.

Teenage girls sneak out on a summer night to meet their boyfriends by the train tracks. A woman escapes suffocating grief through a vivid fantasy life. Members of a cult form an unsettling chorus as they extol their passion for the same man. A love story begins over cabbages in a grocery store. A laundress' life is consumed by obsession for a famous baseball player. Two high school friends kiss all night and binge-watch Winona Ryder movies after the death of a sister.

Leesa Cross-Smith's sensuous stories will drench readers in nostalgia for summer nights and sultry days, the intense friendships of teenage girls, and the innate bonds felt between women. She evokes the pangs of loss and motherhood, the headiness and destructive potential of desire, and the pure exhilaration of being female. The stories in So We Can Glow--some long, some gone in a flash, some told over text and emails--take the wild hearts of girls and women and hold them up so they can catch the light.

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