The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The book features nine deeply moving, funny, and refreshingly honest stories focusing on four generations of characters who navigate the strictures of the Black church, societal pressures, and their own hidden passions. Rather than a critique of religion itself, it explores the culture of silence, performance of virtue, and double standards that Black women and girls often wrestle with as they dare to pursue their true desires.
The book features nine deeply moving, funny, and refreshingly honest stories focusing on four generations of characters who navigate the strictures of the Black church, societal pressures, and their own hidden passions. Rather than a critique of religion itself, it explores the culture of silence, performance of virtue, and double standards that Black women and girls often wrestle with as they dare to pursue their true desires.
