One still hopes for a man the other questions God.
There’s the single woman and the married man who first meet in the hospice facility housing their elderly Christian mothers and who later end up in the back seat of a car outside.Īnd the longtime best girlfriends who as teens dreamed of a double wedding with male mates but now have their own sexual rendezvous together once a year. In it are nine stories that cross generations and families, tales of Black women whose lives are a mixture of religion, sex, love and grief. Now, her new book, “ The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” has been named a fiction finalist for the National Book Award. (RNS) - For years, Deesha Philyaw, a Pittsburgh writer, editor and writing coach, has gradually crafted stories about church ladies - but these are not the stories you’d likely hear sitting in the pew of a Black church.
