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. In the dark shadows of a hospice parking lot, grieving strangers find comfort in each other. A serial mistress lays down the ground rules for her married lovers.
As Y2K looms, Caroletta's "same time next year" arrangement with her childhood best friend is tenuous. At forty-two, Lyra realizes that her discomfort with her own body stands between her and a new love. There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who has a crush on the preacher's wife. As a girl in Jacksonville, Florida, Deesha Philyaw imagined the sex lives of the grown Black women around her.
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. Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. 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.
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