Books by Deesha Philyaw
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
by Deesha Philyaw
🏆 Winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award
🏆 Winner of the 2020 Story Prize
🏆 Winner of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
✩ Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction
This multi-award-winning collection of short stories features nine tales of Black Christian women as they seek to answer knotty questions of love, longing and sexuality. First released in the United States in 2020, it is finally available to readers in the United Kingdom from Pushkin Press. Television rights were also recently picked up by HBO Max.
