The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 179 pages ; 19 cm
"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:
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.
Subjects:
African American women -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
African American women -- Religious life -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
African American women -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
African American women -- Religious life -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
ISBN:
9781949199734