Easy Street

A Story of Redemption from Myself

By: Maggie Rowe

Narrated by: Maggie Rowe

A moving and offbeat story of unlikely friendship, the cost of ambition, and what happens when the things you’ve always run away from show up on your doorstep.

To most, Maggie Rowe appears to live on Easy Street. Her stylish home is in a fashionable Los Angeles neighborhood. She has a kind husband who makes her laugh. And after years of struggle, she is finally making a name for herself in Hollywood. But the agreeable, confident persona she presents to the world often feels like a deception to Maggie, who’s long grappled with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy.

Enter Joanna Hergert, a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who lives with her elderly mother. Maggie’s husband, Jim, introduces her to the pair after meeting them at a local charbroiled chicken franchise. Over the next several years, she forms a friendship with Joanna and her mother - despite Joanna’s robust romantic fixation on Jim. What begins as a mild curiosity soon blooms into a complicated and intimate friendship that will challenge Maggie to confront her mental health issues and the trade-offs she’s made to live life on her own terms.

Engrossing, moving, and wickedly funny, Easy Street is a midlife coming-of-age buddy comedy about embracing the strength of the families we fashion, finding peace with the choices we make, and, above all, learning to be compassionate with ourselves.

©2022 by Maggie Rowe. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

A must read!

easy street is a great book. I definitely recommend it ! funny at times but a real love of Maggie’s best friend and her daughter… who seems to be autistic. Maggie doesn’t say that joanna is autistic. At first I couldn’t figure out how old Joanna was bc she seemed very anxious. Anyway it was a excellent book and a must read!

Portrait of Genuine Kindness

The performance is aces, in this L.A. story of kindness as an an least somewhat soothing tonic when one's own struggles mount. Maggie Rowe on top of her game in this book.

I loved it!

A wonderful book. Not to be missed. Read by the author who did a great job.

Charming, funny and a great read

What starts as a fun buddy comedy turns into an investigation of what it means to be in control of your mind. The story whips by in this engaging and well written book. And well performed too. Recommended.