We are happy to announce that the UK edition of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw will be published by Pushkin Press in May 2022. Waterstone's will be offering a special exclusive edition, featuring a brand new bonus story.
Stateside, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (WVU Press, 2020) won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. We are so happy to see Church Ladies looking peachy-keen in its new UK home.