The Resource The secret lives of church ladies, Deesha Philyaw
The secret lives of church ladies, Deesha Philyaw
Resource Information
The item The secret lives of church ladies, Deesha Philyaw represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The secret lives of church ladies, Deesha Philyaw represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 179 pages
- Contents
-
- When Eddie Levert comes
- Eula
- Not-Daniel
- Dear sister
- Peach cobbler
- Snowfall
- How to make love to a physicist
- Jael
- Instructions for married Christian husbands
- Isbn
- 9781949199734
- Label
- The secret lives of church ladies
- Title
- The secret lives of church ladies
- Statement of responsibility
- Deesha Philyaw
- Subject
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- trueFamily relationships
- FICTION / Literary
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- trueNorth American people
- trueSexuality
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories, American
- African American girls -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Fiction
- African American women -- Religious life -- Fiction
- trueAmerican people
- trueChristian life
- trueChurches
- FICTION / African American
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Award
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- PEN-Faulkner Award, 2021.
- Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2020.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10915229
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Philyaw, Deesha
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3616.H479
- LC item number
- A6 2020
- Literary form
- short stories
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American women
- African American girls
- African American women
- Interpersonal relations
- Short stories, American
- FICTION / African American
- FICTION / Literary
- Label
- The secret lives of church ladies, Deesha Philyaw
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- When Eddie Levert comes
- Eula
- Not-Daniel
- Dear sister
- Peach cobbler
- Snowfall
- How to make love to a physicist
- Jael
- Instructions for married Christian husbands
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 179 pages
- Isbn
- 9781949199734
- Lccn
- 2020008805
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1142519248
- Label
- The secret lives of church ladies, Deesha Philyaw
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- When Eddie Levert comes
- Eula
- Not-Daniel
- Dear sister
- Peach cobbler
- Snowfall
- How to make love to a physicist
- Jael
- Instructions for married Christian husbands
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 179 pages
- Isbn
- 9781949199734
- Lccn
- 2020008805
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1142519248
Subject
- trueFamily relationships
- FICTION / Literary
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- trueNorth American people
- trueSexuality
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories, American
- African American girls -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Fiction
- African American women -- Religious life -- Fiction
- trueAmerican people
- trueChristian life
- trueChurches
- FICTION / African American
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