NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Blue Cypress Books presents author Deesha Philyaw on Oct. 13th at 5:00pm. Ms. Philyaw will be discussing her story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.” The event will be hosted by Jami Attenberg. Wine will be served.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets are $21 each and include a signed copy of “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.” This is an offsite event at a private residence. Address will be given after ticket purchase. More about the event and to purchase tickets here.
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies: The nine stories in “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” 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.
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. More info here.
Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Philyaw is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. More info here.
Blue Cypress Books is a local, woman-owned, New Orleans bookstore and has been a warm and welcoming place to find high-quality used and new books since 2008. BCB is an inclusive and welcoming place where we speak our minds and invite open conversations. They are proud members of the American Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, and are consistently rated as a top bookstore in the city. More info here.
