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    Crossing the Street: A Novel
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    Crossing the Street: A Novel

    By Molly D. Campbell

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    About this ebook

    A woman’s life is turned around by an eight-year-old girl and an eightysomething neighbor: “Hilarious . . . full of heartwarming, familial honesty . . . a joy to read” (Jamie Ford, New York Times–bestselling author of The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet).
     
    This wasn’t the way Beck Throckmorton had planned it. She wasn’t expecting to find herself in her thirties writing erotica and making flat whites for a living while she stewed over that fact that her ex had wound up with her sister. She never saw herself living in a small suburban Ohio town with an octogenarian neighbor best friend. And she definitely wouldn’t have imagined the eight-year-old great-granddaughter of that friend turning her world upside down.
     
    As summer comes around, Beck’s life is unsettled in every way. And that’s before the crazy stuff starts: the sister taunting her with her pregnancy, the infuriatingly perfect boyfriend, the multiple trips to the emergency room. And the needy, wise-beyond-her-years little girl finding places in her heart that Beck didn’t even know existed . . .
     
    “Molly Campbell writes with such compassion, wit, and humor that you can’t help but fall in love with Beck and, of course, the spunky, intuitive, brilliant Bob . . . completely heart-wrenching with an ending that will make you ugly-cry.” —Katie Moretti, New York Times–bestselling author of The Binds That Tie
     
    “An ideal summer read.” —Dayton Daily News
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 9, 2017
    ISBN9781945839054
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    • 5/5
      I would like to thank NetGalley, Story Plant, and Molly D. Campbell for the ARC of "Crossing the Street" by Molly D. Campbell for my honest review.The genre for this book is Women's Fiction. I found that Molly D. Campbell describes flawed, complex, and complicated characters. These characters are likeable at times, and not likeable at times. These characters remind me of my friends, neighbors, and family. Rebecca is friends with Ella, an eighty year old neighbor. Rebecca comes from a dysfunctional family and shows anger and hostility towards her sister for marrying her old boyfriend. Her sister and husband are now expecting a baby. Rebecca writes erotic novels to support herself and also works at Starbucks. Ella gets news that her great grand daughter is going to be coming to live with her. Ella's grandson is in the service overseas. Ella is frail and falls, and Rebecca helps both Ella and Bob, her great grand daughter. Bob is eight years old and is quite mature and precocious. Although Bob is a young girl who has had a tough time while her Dad is away, she seems to have "adult" reasoning. She teaches her Grandmother to text and e-mail. Bob helps Rebecca cook, and tries to help with Rebecca's relationships. I really liked Bob! She has lots of spunk. I find that Molly D. Campbell, shows growth and understanding, the importance of friends,neighbors and family, and love of animals. The author also shows emotion through her characters, anger, hate, forgiveness, compassion,and love. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it highly. I had a few "Kleenex" moments.
    • 5/5
      Crossing the Street by Molly D. CampbellStory starts out with Beck (Rebecca) and she's working as a barrister at the coffee shop and also writing her erotic stories. She meets the little teen next door as she's to live with her grandmother while her dad is overseas fighting in the war.She really bonds with her but there's a lot going on in her life and her work and now her sister is pregnant with her ex boyfriend, although they are married now.Lots of drama but real life situations and it's assuming how she handles them all and then some.Never saw the ending take place as it does in this story, SUPER! She pulls it off so beautifully.Can't wait to read more from this author, she hits the nail on the head and is so descriptive as if you are in her shoes.Received this review copy from The Story Plant and this is my honest opinion.