Enjoy fast, FREE delivery, exclusive deals and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime and start saving today with Fast, FREE Delivery

List Price: $18.99 Details

Save: $2.10 (11%)

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns

FREE delivery Wednesday, May 17 on orders shipped by Amazon over $25. Order within 16 hrs 9 mins

Select delivery location

In Stock

[{"displayPrice":"$16.89","priceAmount":16.89,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"16","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"89","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"yOvBDQ5cPdikaFSLzardy5PcCLi2TsZYgKP%2BKJKLw2kFQZdqqbvwk0hKOCuiKGc52ztXZoTdgXOvX%2FfplKuMaG7v%2F9v%2BA7a8L3QLV3l8hFMqV5uFod%2BfBB1cjEVYI0AeSxrGP3EMMpEbDLFC%2FUSeTQ%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW"},{"displayPrice":"$10.51","priceAmount":10.51,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"10","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"51","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"yOvBDQ5cPdikaFSLzardy5PcCLi2TsZYx5Fe6418YPVfQaXj9BKZtHen5pSAdEPz37nU1gSC9F9ljO13sNp7D99ftxFbYtvE7WE0bjIlZSnz20Jqk1n9LPe8kKhTGYBv83UZXazonNrPIDPaBXOyn4Exvw2n9hlDq95vhcfIL1SfxPJ3LvaW2jxtvcNvDqRN","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED"}]

$$16.89 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Payment

Secure transaction

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Details

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.

Read full return policy

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

FREE delivery May 26 - 31 on orders shipped by Amazon over $25

Or fastest delivery May 24 - 25

Select delivery location

Used: Good | Details

Sold by Martistore

Fulfilled by Amazon

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$13.99
& FREE Shipping

Sold by: ASAPBOOK

Added

Not added

$16.72
FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00 shipped by Amazon.

Sold by: Collectiblecounty

Added

Not added

$17.41
& FREE Shipping

Sold by: MyPrepbooks

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 2 images

Follow the Author

Deesha Philyaw

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Paperback – September 1, 2020

by Deesha Philyaw (Author)

4.4 2,689 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$13.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$21.28

$14.17

$14.77

Paperback

"Please retry"

$11.65

—

Paperback, September 1, 2020

$16.89

$9.78

$2.21

Audio CD, CD, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$20.79

$19.01

Kindle
$13.99 Read with Our Free App
Audiobook
$0.00 Free with your Audible trial
Hardcover
$21.28

5 Used from $14.77 10 New from $14.17 1 Collectible from $80.00
Paperback
$16.89

79 Used from $2.21 39 New from $9.78
Audio CD
$20.79

1 Used from $19.01 2 New from $19.01

Purchase options and add-ons

*FINALIST for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction*
*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*

“Beguiling.” —The New Yorker
“Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Triumphant.” —Publishers Weekly
“Cheeky, insightful, and irresistible.” —Ms. Magazine
“This collection marks the emergence of a bona fide literary treasure.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Full of lived-in humanity, warmth, and compassion.” —Pittsburgh Current

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.

There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who has a crush on the preacher’s wife. At forty-two, Lyra realizes that her discomfort with her own body stands between her and a new love. As Y2K looms, Caroletta’s “same time next year” arrangement with her childhood best friend is tenuous. A serial mistress lays down the ground rules for her married lovers. In the dark shadows of a hospice parking lot, grieving strangers find comfort in each other.

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.

Print length

189 pages
Language

English
Publisher

West Virginia University Press
Publication date

September 1, 2020
Dimensions

4.72 x 0.6 x 7.48 inches
ISBN-10

1949199738
ISBN-13

978-1949199734
See all details

Frequently bought together

$16.89

Get it as soon as Wednesday, May 17

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

$11.26

Get it as soon as Wednesday, May 17

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

$10.29

Get it as soon as Wednesday, May 17

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Total price:

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Try again!

Details

Added to Cart

Choose items to buy together.

Highest rated | Lowest Pricein this set of products
Mikki Kendall
5,005
Paperback
$10.71
Most purchasedin this set of products
Bonnie Garmus
150,283
Hardcover
in Mothers & Children Fiction
$17.99
This item:
Deesha Philyaw
2,689
Paperback
$16.89
Kennedy Ryan
3,400
Paperback
$12.31
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
1,652
Paperback
$11.70
Tia Williams
15,093
Paperback
$12.71
Octavia E. Butler
14,746
Paperback
$12.49
Zora Neale Hurston
14,135
Paperback
$11.26
Gabrielle Zevin
46,131
Hardcover
$15.49
Brit Bennett
117,483
Paperback
$11.99
James Baldwin
8,037
Paperback
$14.40

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Beautifully crafted. A lovely collection.”
Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist

“Our new decade deserves a new literary force with major literary skills. Deesha Philyaw uses the comic, the allegorical, and the geographic to examine Black intimacies and Black secrets. Her work is as rigorous as it is pleasurable to read.”
Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

“To encounter Deesha Philyaw’s work is to encounter contemporary folktales. They are the stories of southern customs and mores and of voices over the back fence. The daughters and granddaughters of Toni Cade Bambara and Bebe Moore Campbell readers need this book.”
Yona Harvey, author of Hemming the Water and writer for the Marvel Comics World of Wakanda series

“This is no mere collection of sappy romance stories. The love in Philyaw’s stories runs the gamut from sweet to bitter, sexy to sisterly, temporary to time tested, often with hidden aspects. The word secret in the title is earned, and some of the secrets are downright juicy.”
Tara Campbell, author of Midnight at the Organporium, from Barrelhouse magazine

“Beguiling.”
The New Yorker

“Triumphant. . . . Philyaw’s stories inform and build on one another, turning her characters’ private struggles into a beautiful chorus.”
Publishers Weekly

“A collection of luminous stories populated by deeply moving and multifaceted characters. . . . Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Vivid, vibrant stories that will linger on your tongue like sweet tea.”
Vox

“In this year of constriction and pain, juicy goodness bursts from every page of Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection. . . . This collection marks the emergence of a bona fide literary treasure.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Sex, friendship, freedom, and agency are centered throughout this cheeky, insightful, and irresistible new book.”
Ms. Magazine

“Stunning. . . Philyaw’s stories are addictive while also laying bare the depth and vulnerability of Black women.”
Observer

“The church, sexuality, and everyday life come alive in each story bringing readers closer to experiences we can, or have, seen ourselves in.”
Electric Lit, “24 New and Forthcoming Books That Celebrate Black Lives”

“The stories of these women and their friendships come alive, beating with tenderness and imperfection, and build upon one another to create a beautiful melody of female determination.”
Amazon Book Review, “12 Must-Read Books by Black Authors Coming in Fall 2020”

“Full of lived-in humanity, warmth, and compassion.”
Pittsburgh Current

“These are stories about Black women that haven’t been told with this level of depth, wit, or insight before, so it will not shock me if Oprah gets around to selecting it before the end of the year.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Incredibly moving.”
Pittsburgh City Paper

From the Back Cover

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.

There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who has a crush on the preacher’s wife. At forty-two, Lyra realizes that her discomfort with her own body stands between her and a new love. As Y2K looms, Caroletta’s “same time next year” arrangement with her childhood best friend is tenuous. A serial mistress lays down the ground rules for her married lovers. In the dark shadows of a hospice parking lot, grieving strangers find comfort in each other.

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.

About the Author

Deesha Philyaw’s writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, the Rumpus, Brevity, TueNight, and elsewhere. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, she currently lives in Pittsburgh with her daughters.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

How to Make Love to a Physicist [excerpted]

How do you make love to a physicist? You do it on Pi Day—pi is a constant, also irrational—but the groundwork is laid months in advance. First you must meet him in passing at a STEAM conference. As a middle school art teacher, you are there to ensure the A(rts) are truly represented and not lost amid the giants of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math. But as a Black woman, you are there playing Count the Negroes, as you do at every conference. He is number twelve, at a conference of hundreds. On the first day of the conference, you notice him coming down the convention center escalator as you ride up. You try to guess which letter of the acronym he is there to represent. His face and baby dreads give you equal parts “poet” and “high school math teacher.”

On the second day of the conference, you see him again at a breakout session, “Arts Integration and Global Citizenry.” He’s chatting with the presenter—a sista, number thirteen—before the session begins. From what you overhear, you glean that they know each other from their undergrad days in Atlanta in the early nineties. The have a lot of people in common at their respective alma maters. They promise to catch up again before the conference is over. You notice she’s wearing a wedding ring, and he is not.

As you’re leaving the breakout session, he notices you noticing him. His smile is brilliant; you smile back. He falls in step with you, extends his hand, and introduces himself. He says “Eric Turman,” but you hear “Erick Sermon.” And your eyes widen and then narrow because you think he’s joking, in a weirdly esoteric way.

“No, Eric Turman,” he says again, laughing. “Not the guy from EPMD.”

“Got it,” you say. “I’m Lyra James. Not to be confused with Rick James.”

Eric chuckles. “But often confused with Lyra, home to one of the brightest stars in the night sky.”

The compliment takes you by surprise, and you’re probably doing a shitty job of hiding it. “So you’re . . . a science teacher?”

He is not a science teacher, nor is he a poet. He’s a physicist and chair of the education programs committee for the American Physics Society.

You make small talk about “Arts Integration and Global Citizenry.” He asks what brings you to the conference and you tell him you teach middle school art—sculpting, printmaking, painting, fiber arts, ceramics. He asks if you will tell him more over lunch. And you do. And then the conversation continues over dinner—you learn what the chair of the education programs committee for the American Physics Society does—and then in the bar of the conference hotel, over drinks. And then on a sofa in the lobby. You each share your top five MCs. You debate Scarface vs. Rakim for number one.

You notice his thick eyelashes, large hands, and a little scar next to his right eyebrow. When he lifts his newsboy cap a few times to scratch his head, you see the baby dreads are neat and well moisturized.

He tells you about his job, the one that pays the bills, where he develops astrophysics and cosmology theories, and conducts research to test those theories. “I aspire to be an astronaut as a side hustle, but NASA won’t return a brotha’s calls.” He shrugs. “What about you?”

“Me?” you say. “Oh, I just have the one job.”

“And your aspirations?”

You take a deep breath and spill your dreams. “You know that school LeBron James started? I want to start one like that. A bunch of them, actually, all over the country. But I’ll start with one, serving entire families. That’s really the key, you know?”

He knows. [. . .]

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ West Virginia University Press; First Edition (September 1, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 189 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949199738
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949199734
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.72 x 0.6 x 7.48 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #40,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #738 in Black & African American Women's Fiction (Books)
- #911 in Short Stories (Books)
- #3,494 in Literary Fiction (Books)

Customer Reviews:
4.4 2,689 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Deesha Philyaw

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

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 September 2020. 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. Deesha is a Fellow at the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction and a past Pushcart Prize nominee for essay writing in Full Grown People. Deesha is also the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce, written in collaboration with her ex-husband.

Learn more about Deesha's work at deeshaphilyaw.com.

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5

2,689 global ratings

5 star		65%
4 star		21%
3 star		9%
2 star		3%
1 star		2%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Reviews with images

See all customer images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

ReadnliftwithShar

Pretty Good!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2023

Verified Purchase

I’ve sat on this book for years, at this point! But I did enjoy it. The different stories and takes on situations was a good touch. I liked the life lessons, stories of relationships, and the relations to church ladies and what is expected of them. There were a few stories that I enjoyed more than others but overall they all seemed to have a strong message and I respect that. Overall, really good read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2023

Verified Purchase

Enjoyed reading this book and I also have the audible version. There were times I found myself laughing out loud. I found it a bit difficult following the story but overall a good read. I would recommend this book.

Helpful

P. J. Owen

The best short story collection I've read in a long time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2021

Verified Purchase

Deesah Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies won the prestigious Story Award for 2020, and this collection is well deserving of that accolade. The first story, Eula, sets the tone for the whole book, with its brief, heartbreaking look at two women who have been best friends “for more than half their lives”, but also lovers. While the narrator Caroletta, wants more from her friend than just the physical, Eula wants to be “normal” and hasn’t stopped looking for a husband and encouraging Caroletta to do the same. Eula is very religious, and she pushes hard against the idea that they can be anything more than they are. Caroletta, who is more ambivalent about her faith, continues to seduce and push Eula. As this very short story ends, Eula admits that she’s scared. Caroletta, acknowledging her fears, begins yet another physical interaction, and the story ends on this ambiguous note. Will there be a change? Or will Eula continue to search for the perfect husband?

Many of the stories are likes the first, with characters pitting their faith against their desires. And these stories also pit women against other women. In Peach Cobbler a teenage girl finds herself tutoring the son of the preacher her mother has been having an affair with for years, and find herself in a position of choosing her own path or her mother’s (another story, Instruction For Married Christian Husbands, suggests that she ends up like her mother, but with more perceived agency) In Jael, the titular character is disgusted when her friend begins to sleep with an older man, but she soon finds herself alone with him, and also makes a surprising choice.

There’s hope in some of the stories too. In How to Make Love to a Physicist, a woman’s distaste of her own body hinders her ability to be in a relationship with a seemingly good guy, but her psychiatrists helps her along. When Eddie Levert Comes is a poignant look at desire and memory, as a woman tries to find love while caring for her mother, who has dementia but wakes every morning believing her crush as a young woman is coming to see her.

These are all just amazing stories, very human and deep in their meaning, and creative in their various forms. Well done.

8 people found this helpful

Helpful

Amazon Customer

I loved 7/9 stories

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2021

Verified Purchase

This was an excellent read.

I wish there were more of these portrayals of realistic women and their sexuality when I was younger. I also appreciated that, in many of the stories were light-hearted or bittersweet. I'm a bit tired of books about miserable people suffering.

I think that the author is at her best when she portrays characters who she probably relates to more. Though the characters in the book are many ages, the most relatable came of age in the 80s. They are mostly defining their boundaries, especially in terms of their sexuality and their relationships with their mothers. When the author portrays women from older generations, the inner life that she describes is less nuanced, more what could be deduced from what they say rather than what could be imagined of their secret thoughts.

My favorite chapters were dear sister, peach cobbler, how to make love to a physicist, and instructions for married christian husbands. All of the stories had memorable characters and I'm sure that they'll stay with me for many years.

A lot of ppl like Jael. I read it twice (once after I reviewed the context of the scripture quoted at the end. I believe that atory) It's a fascinating and nuanced story. It made me wish that I had read it as part of a book club bc it left me with questions and points to discuss. All of that said, it also fell a bit flat for me. The other stories describe actions, both good and evil, that are common enough to be mundane, and I think that's a real strength of the book. In Jael, the characters are less like ppl I know. One, or possibly two, of the actions in that story are behaviors by teen girls that I never heard mention of in my 10 years of working at a crisis center (I've seen a lot of evil, though I'm sure I haven't seen everything). It's a compelling story, but not as satisfyingly real as the others.

I appreciated that a lot of the stories ended with semicolons rather than periods. If the author ever wants to tell us what happened next in their lives, I'd love to find out (and I was so relieved to meet one character for a second time towards the end).

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

Danelle Hunn-Tyler

Worth the time.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2023

Verified Purchase

Page turner!! A great lazy Sunday read. Enjoyable from beginning to end.Lots of memorable characters. #shorts. #stories. Wishing I had bought a hard copy for my library.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2023

Verified Purchase

I can’t be the only one who feels like she can write a pt 2 and just follow up each story where she left off. I can across this book randomly and it was so worth the read!

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Kindle Customer

Church Ladies

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2023

Verified Purchase

I knew every one of those ladies.
Ms. Philyaw has found a modern way to tell an old story.
Well done.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Bukola Akinyemi

Loved the characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 16, 2021

Verified Purchase

The first two stories were unexpected (not sure what I expected really), I thought I was supposed to be reading about church ladies

The writing in this book is beautiful. I kept stopping to smile at the pages and appreciate the words. One of the chapters is a long letter from a sister to another while another is a list of instructions. Each different writing style is refreshing.

My favourite chapter was How to Love a Physicist, a story of pure, patient love and self discovery.

The chapter that made me laugh the most was Instruction for Married Christian Husbands.

As a people watcher, I love reading about different characters. In this book we meet and fall in love (or hate) with all sorts of characters from the very patient Physicist called Eric, the strong willed Jael and her grandma, randy men who get pepper sauce in their drinks and Jamie who had much more than that, peach cobbler making mistresses and cheating pastors.

Themes explored in this book include grief and different ways of dealing with it, love (giving and accepting it), identity, dysfunctional families, sexuality and acceptance, infidelity and caring for sick parents.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, read both the physical copy and listened to the audio book.

5 people found this helpful

Fern

Deesha Philyaw will have you begging for more!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 12, 2022

Verified Purchase

A beautifully crafted collection of short stories, layered with an irresistible southern wit, stark humour and a messy realness that just felt so damn sexy.

In The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, no secrets are left untold as Deesha Philyaw’s unearths the distinct, deep rooted hunger for freedom, passion, lust and desire that drives each of her characters, which in turn, exposes a rich and insightful exploration into religion, womanhood, sexuality, infidelity, power, sexism and so much more.

For such a quick, mesmerising read, Deesha Philyaw will have you begging for more.

Amazon Customer

Great short stories collection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 10, 2021

Verified Purchase

Really enjoyed the characters in this collection. All of them very distinct in stories that touch on several themes like finding love, acceptance, friendship. All of them with some connection to the church or religion but that is just one facet of their lifes and there is so much depth in these characters that compels you to read the entire collection in no time.

2 people found this helpful

Peter K.

Prize Winning Author

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2023

Verified Purchase

Not being the target audience for this book I still found it surprising good. Short stories.

One person found this helpful

Mrs PRD

A must for women

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 5, 2021

Verified Purchase

Excellent read. A very thought provoking mix of experiences influenced by a variety of lifestyles, traditions and religious beliefs. Recommend.

2 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Amazon Music Stream millions of songs	Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers	6pm Score deals on fashion brands	AbeBooks Books, art & collectibles	ACX Audiobook Publishing Made Easy	Sell on Amazon Start a Selling Account

Amazon Business Everything For Your Business	Amazon Fresh Groceries & More Right To Your Door	AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally	Home Services Experienced Pros Happiness Guarantee	Amazon Ignite Sell your original Digital Educational Resources	Amazon Web Services Scalable Cloud Computing Services

Audible Listen to Books & Original Audio Performances	Book Depository Books With Free Delivery Worldwide	Box Office Mojo Find Movie Box Office Data	ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics	DPReview Digital Photography	Fabric Sewing, Quilting & Knitting

Goodreads Book reviews & recommendations	IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities	IMDbPro Get Info Entertainment Professionals Need	Kindle Direct Publishing Indie Digital & Print Publishing Made Easy	Amazon Photos Unlimited Photo Storage Free With Prime	Prime Video Direct Video Distribution Made Easy

Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands	Amazon Warehouse Great Deals on Quality Used Products	Whole Foods Market America’s Healthiest Grocery Store	Woot! Deals and Shenanigans	Zappos Shoes & Clothing	Ring Smart Home Security Systems

eero WiFi Stream 4K Video in Every Room	Blink Smart Security for Every Home	Neighbors App Real-Time Crime & Safety Alerts	Amazon Subscription Boxes Top subscription boxes – right to your door	PillPack Pharmacy Simplified	Amazon Renewed Like-new products you can trust

Amazon Prime includes:

Buy new: $16.89$16.89 FREE delivery: Wednesday, May 17 on orders over $25.00 shipped by Amazon. Ships from: Amazon.com Sold by: Amazon.com

Buy used: $10.51

Other Sellers on Amazon

Follow the Author

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Paperback – September 1, 2020

Purchase options and add-ons

Frequently bought together

What do customers buy after viewing this item?

Editorial Reviews

Review

From the Back Cover

About the Author

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Product details

Videos

About the author

Deesha Philyaw

Customer reviews

Reviews with images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries

Buy new:

$16.89

FREE delivery: Wednesday, May 17 on orders over $25.00 shipped by Amazon.

Ships from: Amazon.com

Sold by: Amazon.com

Buy used:

$10.51