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An Evening With Dantiel W. Moniz & Deesha Philyaw: On Milk Blood Heat: Stories & The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

An Evening With Dantiel W. Moniz & Deesha Philyaw: On Milk Blood Heat: Stories & The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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Moniz, Dantiel W., Philyaw, Deesha
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Set in the cities and suburbs of Florida, the 11 short works in Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut collection, Milk Blood Heat: Stories, delve into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These stories explore human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is a short story collection that explores some of the places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. There they are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, and as free as they deserve to be.

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Deesha Philyaw’s writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press), won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. It explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and enjoy a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories presented 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. There is 14-year-old Jael, who has a crush on the preacher’s wife; Lyra, whose discomfort with her own body at 42 stands between her and love; and a serial mistress laying down the ground rules for her married lovers. Kirkus celebrated the book as a “collection of luminous stories populated by deeply moving and multifaceted characters. … Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root.”

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Dantiel W. Moniz’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, Joyland, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. Milk Blood Heat: Stories (Grove Press), comprising 11 short works, is her first book. The collection depicts the lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among cities and suburbs, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. A 13-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs. A woman recovering from a miscarriage sees her dead daughter in her daily life and cannot let go. A teenager resists her family’s church, and they accuse her of courting the devil. Kirkus described it as a “powerful debut collection” and “a wonderland of deep female characters navigating their lives against the ever changeable backdrop of Florida.”

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