Listen to Sarah Enright as she recommends This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith.
This is Sarah Enright, with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today, I am recommending, This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith, the moving story of two strangers brought together on the same bridge one rainy, October night in Kentucky. Tallie Clark a 40-year-old recently divorced therapist, instinctively stops her car when she spots the man she comes to know as Emmet, on the wrong side of the bridge railing. Looking as though he may jump, Tallie decides she must do whatever she can to get and keep him away from the edge. After a brief exchange, he reluctantly takes her hand and agrees to have coffee with her. As Tallie methodically chooses to hide parts of herself from Emmet for fear that she’ll scare him away, she simultaneously tries to pry as much information as she can from this quiet, mysterious man.