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Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel

December 20, 2017 by Meghan Florian Leave a Comment

Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel
Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel
By Leesa Cross-Smith
Publication Date: 2018

Click here to read RCWMS Communications Director Meghan Florian’s review of Whiskey & Ribbons for The Englewood Review of Books.

Whiskey & Ribbons, Leesa Cross-Smith’s first novel, is a love story folded inside of a love story. It is a novel about grief, about family, about how we hold one another together when everything falls apart.

The character at the heart of the novel, by my reading, is Evangeline, who goes by Evi, but the story is told in three voices – Evi herself, her deceased husband Eamon, and Eamon’s best friend Dalton. In the hands of a less skilled storyteller, the book’s multivocal structure might be unwieldy or confusing, but Cross-Smith deftly moves from present to past and back again, from voice to voice, inhabiting and revealing each character with melodic grace.

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About Meghan Florian

Meghan graduated from Duke Divinity School in the spring of 2009 with a Master of Theological Studies. The following fall she began an internship at RCWMS after running into Jeanette Stokes at a Duke Divinity Women’s Center event, where she expressed frustration that she wasn’t using her degree in her job as a restaurant hostess. After her internship Meghan continued to be involved at RCWMS as a member of the board of trustees before becoming Communications Director. In addition to her work at RCWMS, Meghan is the author of The Middle of Things: Essays, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. She teaches writing at William Peace University, and when she has spare time she enjoys reading, dancing, bicycling, visiting her twin nieces in Texas, and cheering on the US Women’s National Soccer Team.

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