TY  - BOOK
AU  - Philyaw,Deesha
TI  - The secret lives of church ladies
SN  - 9781949199734
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Morgantown
PB  - West Virginia University Press
KW  - African American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African American girls
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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