Promotional language provided by publisher. The novel Whiskey & Ribbons waslonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and listed among Oprah Magazine’s “Top Books of Summer.” Every Kiss A War was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (2012) and the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2012). So We Can Glow was listed as one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020. This Close To Okay was a Goodreads Choice 2021 Nominee for Best Fiction, a Book of the Month Early Release Pick for December 2020 and a Book of the Month Book of the Year 2021 Nominee, the Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick for February 2021, and the Marie Claire Book Club Pick for March 2021. She was longlisted for the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. She is the author of This Close To Okay, So We Can Glow, Whiskey & Ribbons, Every Kiss A War, and the forthcoming Half-Blown Rose. Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and writer from Kentucky. As Cillian does all he can to win her back, Vincent must decide what she wants.
In a journey that is both transportive and intimate, Half-Blown Rose traverses Paris, art, travel, liminal spaces, and the messy complexities of relationships and romance, with excerpts from Cillian’s novel, playlists, and journal entries woven throughout. Soon they begin an intense affair, and somewhere between dinners made together, cigarettes smoked in the moonlight, hazy evenings in nightclubs, and long, starry walks along the Seine, Vincent feels herself loosening and blossoming. Now estranged from her husband, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their son’s wedding the following summer, but Loup introduces new complications. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about their marriage and his own past, hinting that when he was a teenager, he may have had a child with a young woman back in Dublin-before he moved to California and never returned. The rotating third-person perspective combined with the amount of exposition makes it difficult for a compelling central story to rise to the surface, and once it finally does, the tension is too easily resolved.
At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum she has a vibrant group of friends and she’s even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. Cross-Smith has crafted a dense story of devoted friendship against the backdrop of an overwhelming number of minor characters. Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.
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