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Set in contemporary Louisville, Leesa Cross-Smith's mesmerizing first novel surrounding the loss of life of a officer is a requiem for matrimony, camaraderie, and family, from an writer Roxane Gay has called "a consummate storyteller". Evi - a classically-trained ballerina - was nine a few months pregnant when her man Eamon was wiped out in the type of duty on the steamy morning hours in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's implemented brother Dalton has relocated in to help her increase six-month-old Noah. Whiskey & Ribbons is told in three intertwining, melodic voices: Evi in present day, as she's snowed within Dalton throughout a freak blizzard; Eamon before his murder, as he prepares for impending fatherhood and grapples with the threat of his career; and Dalton, as he challenges to seem sensible of his life next to Eamon's, so that as he decides to locate the biological father he's never known. In the vein of Jojo Moyes' After You, Whiskey & Ribbons explores the life that carries on beyond reduction, with an elaborate brotherly dynamic reminiscent of Elizabeth Strout's The Burgess Kids. From the deep breathing on grief, anticipation, motherhood, brotherhood, and surrogate fatherhood. Most importantly, it's a novel about what it means - and whether it's possible - to heal.
