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Deesha Philyaw

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Deesha Philyaw's collection of short stories about Black women, sex, and the Black church, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in Sept. 1, 2020. Deesha is the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce, written in collaboration with her ex-husband. Her work has been listed as Notable in the Best American Essays series, and her writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Brevity, dead housekeeping, Apogee Journal, Catapult, Cheat River Review, TueNight, ESPN’s The Undefeated and The Baltimore Review; Essence, Ebony, and Bitch magazines; and various anthologies. Dee ...more

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	The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 4.17 avg rating — 37,252 ratings — published 2020 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women by Molly Llewellyn (Editor), Kristel Buckley (Editor), Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) 3.57 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction by Zoë Bossiere (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dinty W. Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brenda Miller (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Co-parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households after Divorce by Deesha Philyaw (Goodreads Author), Michael D. Thomas (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made by Lori Rotskoff (editor), Laura L. Lovett (Editor), Joe Kelly (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion & Open Adoption by Brooke Randolph (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Annie Jacobs, April Dinwoodie 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CHUTZ-POW! Superheroes of the Holocaust, Volume Three: The Young Survivors by Wayne Wise (Scripts & Inks), M.L. Walker (Goodreads Author) (Art & Scripts), Loran Skinkis (Pencil Art) 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Mate 101 and Other Essays on Love and Sex by Jennifer Niesslein (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sara Bir, Jean Kim 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 2 by Deesha Philyaw (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Tommy Dean (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So S/He Had An Affair: Writing to Keep From Losing Your Sh*t by Deesha Philyaw (Goodreads Author), Magda Pecsenye (With) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You can't save me, because I'm not in peril.”
― Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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“But maybe you should question the people who taught you this version of God. Because it's not doing you any favors.”
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“And you realize that if God were to welcome everyone into heaven, your mother would abandon Christianity immediately”
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February BoTM Nominations ~ Book by a Black Author ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books move onto Final Poll

The Violin Conspiracy

by Brendan Slocumb

10 votes, 28.6%

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah

7 votes, 20.0%

Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead

4 votes, 11.4%

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

3 votes, 8.6%

People Person

by Candice Carty-Williams

3 votes, 8.6%

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi

3 votes, 8.6%

By the Book

by Jasmine Guillory

2 votes, 5.7%

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

1 vote, 2.9%

Someday, Maybe

by Onyi Nwabineli

1 vote, 2.9%

What the Fireflies Knew

by Kai Harris

1 vote, 2.9%

Dele Weds Destiny

by Tomi Obaro

0 votes, 0.0%

Hold You Down

by Tracy Brown

0 votes, 0.0%

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