Author Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut short-story collection with 90.5 WESA's Bill O'Driscoll as part of a special episode of our podcast, Pittsburgh Explainer.
Two women, lifelong friends, consummate their yearly hotel-room assignation on the eve of Y2K. A man and a woman, near-strangers, have sex in a car outside the hospice where both their mothers are dying. A woman writes a long letter to her sister, who never knew their wayward father, who just died. A girl grows up understanding, but forbidden to speak about, her mother’s years-long affair with their pastor – and then becomes close to the pastor’s wife and teen-aged son.