The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Paperback Book

Description: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going Black women, soon to be an HBO TV series. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 preachers 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 others arms every New Years 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.Beautifully crafted. A lovely collection - Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist Author Biography Deesha Philyaw is an American author, columnist and public speaker. Her debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. It is currently being adapted for television by HBO Max. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Review Philyaws tender, truthful stories capture all the awkward untidiness of love, desire and family life, yet have a core of joy that makes them wonderfully uplifting. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is a terrific collection, full of flawed, bruised, bold, complex, intensely human characters. - Sarah WatersIts terrific. Im savouring every story in it, reading them once, then again. - Madeleine MillerA wonderful book whose joyful, riotous, interlaced stories combine to paint a picture of a group of women torn between the exigencies of their religion and the urges of their bodies. Philyaw finds beauty in unexpected places, lifting everyday experience into something almost sacred... I was reminded repeatedly of Woolfs Mrs Dalloway - Philyaws great triumph is to permit her characters to inhabit fully their rich and particular interior lives. - ObserverPhilyaw expertly treads the line between humour and heartbreak in stories youll want to wolf down. - Guardian Our new decade deserves a new literary force with major literary skills. Deesha Philyaw uses the comic, the allegorical, and the geographic to examine Black intimacies and Black secrets. Her work is as rigorous as it is pleasurable to read - Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyMind-opening, heart-revealing, soul-shaking....triumphant - Robert Jones, Jr., author of the New York Times instant bestselling novel, The Prophets, a finalist for the National Book Award for FictionLeft me wanting more. Masterfully written. Deesha Philyaw knows the craft of writing as well as she does the nuances of sex - Candice Carty-WilliamsTo encounter Deesha Philyaws work is to encounter contemporary folktales. They are the stories of southern customs and mores and of voices over the back fence. The daughters and granddaughters of Toni Cade Bambara and Bebe Moore Campbell readers need this book - Yona Harvey, author of Hemming the Water and writer for the Marvel Comics World of Wakanda seriesStartlingly fresh and flavoursome. These characters will blast through readers preconceptions and win them over. All hail Philyaw for telling it like nobody else. - Emma Donoghue, author of Room and The Pull of the StarsAn astounding collection... so powerful - Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review PodcastFollowing in the footsteps of Hurston, Angelou and Morrison before her - Deesha Philyaw tenderly explores words left unsaid and stories yet to be told by capturing the raw intimacies of Black women and those they cant help but love. A triumph - Melissa Cummings-Quarry, Black Girls Book ClubThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies is one of the most original and essential short story collections of the year. Deesha Philyaw cuts right through the hypocrisy, religiosity and overbearing men to give her readers a rare glimpse into the deliciously dark, irreverent and fascinating world of church-going women. As a former church lady, Ive been waiting to read a collection like this for an awfully long time - Jan CarsonTender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Long Description An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going Black women, soon to be an HBO TV series. 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 preachers 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 others arms every New Years 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. Beautifully crafted. A lovely collection - Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist Review Text Philyaws tender, truthful stories capture all the awkward untidiness of love, desire and family life, yet have a core of joy that makes them wonderfully uplifting. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is a terrific collection, full of flawed, bruised, bold, complex, intensely human characters. - Sarah Waters Its terrific. Im savouring every story in it, reading them once, then again. - Madeleine Miller A wonderful book whose joyful, riotous, interlaced stories combine to paint a picture of a group of women torn between the exigencies of their religion and the urges of their bodies. Philyaw finds beauty in unexpected places, lifting everyday experience into something almost sacred... I was reminded repeatedly of Woolfs Mrs Dalloway - Philyaws great triumph is to permit her characters to inhabit fully their rich and particular interior lives. - Observer Philyaw expertly treads the line between humour and heartbreak in stories youll want to wolf down. - Guardian Our new decade deserves a new literary force with major literary skills. Deesha Philyaw uses the comic, the allegorical, and the geographic to examine Black intimacies and Black secrets. Her work is as rigorous as it is pleasurable to read - Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Mind-opening, heart-revealing, soul-shaking....triumphant - Robert Jones, Jr., author of the New York Times instant bestselling novel, The Prophets, a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction Left me wanting more. Masterfully written. Deesha Philyaw knows the craft of writing as well as she does the nuances of sex - Candice Carty-Williams To encounter Deesha Philyaws work is to encounter contemporary folktales. They are the stories of southern customs and mores and of voices over the back fence. The daughters and granddaughters of Toni Cade Bambara and Bebe Moore Campbell readers need this book - Yona Harvey, author of Hemming the Water and writer for the Marvel Comics World of Wakanda series Startlingly fresh and flavoursome. These characters will blast through readers preconceptions and win them over. All hail Philyaw for telling it like nobody else. - Emma Donoghue, author of Room and The Pull of the Stars An astounding collection... so powerful - Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review Podcast Following in the footsteps of Hurston, Angelou and Morrison before her - Deesha Philyaw tenderly explores words left unsaid and stories yet to be told by capturing the raw intimacies of Black women and those they cant help but love. A triumph - Melissa Cummings-Quarry, Black Girls Book Club The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is one of the most original and essential short story collections of the year. Deesha Philyaw cuts right through the hypocrisy, religiosity and overbearing men to give her readers a rare glimpse into the deliciously dark, irreverent and fascinating world of church-going women. As a former church lady, Ive been waiting to read a collection like this for an awfully long time - Jan Carson Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Details ISBN1911590731 Author Deesha Philyaw Year 2022 ISBN-10 1911590731 ISBN-13 9781911590736 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-05-05 UK Release Date 2022-05-05 Pages 224 Imprint ONE Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-05-05 Publisher Pushkin Press Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-05-30 Replaced by 9781911590712 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135339077;

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