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ALERT it’s complicated: Church Ladies book + Wordpress + Podcast

da-AL
4 min readDec 15, 2023

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WARNING: humanity and life are massively complex — even more so than Wordpress (and more than my books that I’m querying agents about, which you can find out about here).

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw, my latest fave short story collection, underscores my point spectacularly.

My review of it for Goodreads and Amazon:

A week later, I’m still reeling by how deftly Deesha traverses our weird, weird selves, in ways that anyone with a skin color and a beating heart can relate to. The church ladies who populate her short stories are neither good nor bad — they’re a seesaw of both and a rainbow of in between. Try illustrating human nuance in a way that’s all at once sexy and sad, entertaining and confusing, and above

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Novelist/Blogger/Podcaster. More great stuff at HappinessBetweenTails.com

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