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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Philyaw, Deesha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- African American girls--Fiction.
- African American girls.
- African American women--Religious life--Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Eula
- Not-Daniel
- Dear Sister
- Peach Cobbler
- Snowfall
- How to Make Love to a Physicist
- Jael
- Instructions for Married Christian Husbands
- When Eddie Levert Comes
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize, First Fiction
- PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction Winner
- ISBN:
- 9781949199741
- 1949199746
- OCLC:
- 1178648429
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