So we can glow : stories / Leesa Cross-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross-Smith, Leesa, 1978- author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Short stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

We, Moons p. 1

The Great Barrier Reef Is Dying but So Are We p. 4

Unknown Legend p. 22

Low, Small p. 26

A Tennis Court p. 28

Tim Riggins Would've Smoked p. 33

Surreptitious, Canary, Chamomile p. 35

Winona Forever p. 39

Girlheart Cake with Glitter Frosting p. 48

Fast as You p. 52

Chateau Marmont, Champagne, Chanel p. 56

Bearish p. 62

All That Smoke Howling Blue p. 63

Pink Bubblegum and Flowers p. 65

Knock Out the Heart Lights So We Can Glow p. 79

Get Rowdy p. 81

Re: Little Doves p. 87

Out of the Strong, Something Sweet p. 89

The Lengths p. 96

Small and High Up p. 98

Some Are Dark, Some Are Light, Summer Melts p. 101

Bright p. 113

Dark and Sweet and Dirty p. 115

Home Safe p. 119

Teenage Dream Time Machine p. 125

Rope Burns p. 138

Get Faye & Birdie p. 140

The Darl Inn p. 152

You Should Love the Right Things p. 157

And Down We Go! p. 158

Crepuscular p. 171

Stay and Stay and Stay p. 177

Two Cherries under a Lavender Moon p. 181

When It Gets Warm p. 189

Boy Smoke p. 192

Dandelion Light p. 195

California, Keep Us p. 199

Cloud Report p. 207

Downright p. 216

You Got Me p. 221

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik p. 224

A Girl Has Her Secrets p. 237.

ISBN:

9781538715338

1538715333

OCLC:

1108527003