So We Can Glow: Stories | 
pickThis short story collection from a local Kentucky author really hit the spot. She wrote heavily pop culture-influenced looks a women on the verge sexually. On the verge of affairs or coming of age or rediscovering themselves. The stories were short, well focused, and several checked in on the same characters from multiple perspectives. Highly recommend!
The Taylor Swift Time Person of the Year profile (some top tier writing in and of itself) has me once again thinking of one of my favorite short stories—“Girlheart Cake With Glitter Frosting” by Leesa Cross-Smith from her collection So We Can Glow.
A play on form that manages to evoke emotion from me I‘m still not really sure how it does. A celebration of stereotypical girlhood and womanhood.
pick📚🎧 The 1st tiny introductory story says it all. This is a short book full of even shorter stories written for & by women! For all women. Good, bad, happy, sad, crazy, moms, sisters, lovers, cheaters, friends, enemies; any race, sexual orientation, size or age, all women!
Whichever one you are you‘ll find something in this book that will ring true. Felt real. I plan on annotating the book 😁🖤
LOVED IT!
Thank you @Hazel2019 🤗❤️🤗
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pick4/5🌟This is a smart, fun collection! All about women and focus on love, youth, heartache, sisterhood, heartbreak, desire, motherhood, wives, female friendships, and strength. Cross-Smith is a talented writer and I was so impressed with her story telling abilities. She had me nostalgic for my 90's youth, the comfort of teenage friendships, tv shows, hot summers and Winona Ryder movies. Recommend checking this one out! #bookstagram
pickThere is a beautiful longing to these stories. They are often short, because they encapsulate a particular mood or moment. While I usually like my short stories weird, there was an emotional rawness here that I undeniably connected to. I loved how some stories connect back in on each other. But what really struck me was how Cross-Smith writes about different angles of womanhood with compassion and depth.
Sneaking in some short stories in between Zoom wedding festivities for one of my best friends.
🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 Here are some of today‘s new books! There are more out today that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn Bowman, A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell, New Waves by Kevin Nguyen, The Bramble and the Rose by Tom Bouman, So We Can Glow: Stories by Leesa Cross-Smith, and Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚
