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Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Deesha Philyaw
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award winning Black literature
Black women stories
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church community secrets
complex female relationships
contemporary short stories
desire and faith
desire and freedom
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forbidden love stories
forthcoming
intergenerational womanhood
intimate character portraits
literary short story collection
lush emotional storytelling
modern Black fiction
queer Black fiction
sexuality and religion
Southern Black womanhood
Southern Gothic vibes
tender and raw fiction
women's inner lives

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  • ISBN 9781805337997
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The irresistible literary debut about the hidden desires of church-going Black women

'Left me wanting more. Masterfully written' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie
'Joyous... It's a book in love with life' The Times
'Exquisite... delicious' Bolu Babalola, author of Love in Colour

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.
About Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw is an American author, columnist and public speaker. Her debut, 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 shortlisted for the National Book Award. It is currently being adapted for television by HBO Max. Deesha is also a Kimbilo Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2025 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.

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