# This Close to Okay

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- Book: [This Close to Okay](https://www.bookquiver.com/leesa-cross-smith/this-close-to-okay) ([This Close to Okay.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leesa-cross-smith/this-close-to-okay.md))
- Authors: [Leesa Cross-Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/leesa-cross-smith)
- Publisher: grand_central_publishing
- ISBN: 978-15-3871-537-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2021-09-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man precariously standing at the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he eventually agrees to come back to her house, where he finally shares his name: Emmett. Over the course of the emotionally charged weekend that follows, Tallie makes it her mission to provide a safe space for Emmett, though she hesitates to confess that this is also her day job. What she doesn't realize is that Emmett isn't the only one who needs healing-and they both are harboring secrets. Alternating between Tallie and Emmett's perspectives as they inch closer to the truth of what brought Emmett to the bridge's edge-as well as the hard truths Tallie has been grappling with since her marriage ended-This Close to Okay is an uplifting, cathartic story about chance encounters, hope found in unlikely moments, and the subtle magic of human connection.