Cover of Deesha Philyaw: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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English

Expected delivery time 14-30 days

Book information

Pushkin Press

UK

2023

Paperback

224

Standard

314145

978-1-911590-71-2

1-911590-71-5

Short stories

Annotation

The irresistible literary debut about the hidden desires of church-going Black women The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires, and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who nurses a crush on the preacher's wife; the mother who bakes a sublime peach cobbler every Monday for her date with the married Pastor; and Eula and Caroletta, single childhood friends who seek solace in each other's arms every New Year's Eve. With their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be - and as free as they deserve to be.

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