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Mar 21, 2023 · Wolitzer’s most important and ambitious book to date, The Wife is a wise, sharp-eyed, compulsively readable story about a woman forced to confront the sacrifices she’s made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted.
Jun 1, 2023 · There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who nurses a crush on the preacher's wife; the mother who bakes a sublime peach cobbler every Monday for her date with the married Pastor; and Eula and Caroletta, single childhood friends who seek solace in each other's arms every New Year's Eve.
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Sep 1, 2020 · 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 ...
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- Kimm D. Lett: Were people in the South, particularly churchgoers, receptive to The Secret Lives of Church Ladies? Deesha Philyaw: The only people I’ve heard from were supportive of the book.
- KDL: Were the stories and characters in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies based on anyone’s life? DP: I certainly didn’t take any one person’s story and dress it up in fiction, because that would not have been fair.
- KDL: Let’s talk about growing up in the South and the stories’ relationships to the South. First, when exactly did you leave? DP: I left the South in 1989, when I went to college.
- KDL: And what inspired the young Black girl character in the story “Peach Cobbler”? DP: There was a prompt and a call for submissions about food. There is also this activity I do in workshops called “Fabulous First Lines.”
Aug 25, 2016 · 1914: Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance—and their lives—in danger...
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Mar 24, 2020 · In the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now.
“Jael” (113) is narrated in alternating sections by a teenager named Jael and her great-grandmother and guardian, Granny. Granny begins reading Jael’s diary and finds that she is sexually attracted to women, specifically their church pastor’s wife.
