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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In her stunning debut the creator of Black Liturgiesweaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the necessary rituals that connect us with our belonging dignity and liberation
This is the kind of book that makes you different when youre doneAshley C Ford New York Times bestselling author of Somebodys Daughter
Reaches deep beneath the surface of words unspoken wounds unhealed and secrets untempered to break them open in order for fresh light to break throughMorgan Jerkins New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The Root Library Journal
From the womb we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need a tool for survival the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning
So writes Cole Arthur Riley in her unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin In these deeply transporting pages Arthur Riley reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father and how they revealed to her an embodied dignityaffirming spirituality not only in what they believed but in the act of living itself Writing memorably of her own childhood and coming to self Arthur Riley boldly explores some of the most urgent questions of life and faith How can spirituality not silence the body but instead allow it to come alive How do we honor lament and heal from the stories we inherit How can we find peace in a world overtaken with dislocation noise and unrest In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling Arthur Riley invites us to descend into our own stories examine our capacity to rest wonder joy rage and repair and find that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it
At once a compelling spiritual meditation a powerful intergenerational account and a tender comingofage narrative This Here Flesh speaks potently to anyone who suspects that our stories might have something to say to us
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