The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha PhilyawThe 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.

exciting and frustrating as it twirls through the lives of the four main narrators who seek to resolve the personal conflicts and secrets that have dominated their lives

government to friendships

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Lyra and Pan's relationship reaches a crisis and they are drawn

thirteen-year old Juliet

In poems both tender and ferocious the book illuminates questions that run deep in the Irish psyche

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