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Description: This Here Flesh : Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, Paperback by Riley, Cole Arthur, ISBN 0593239792, ISBN-13 9780593239797, Brand New, Free shipping in the US NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves 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 you’re done.”—Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s 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 through.”—Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby “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 unforgettabl 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, dignity-affirming 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 coming-of-age narrative, This Here Flesh speaks potently to anyone who suspects that our stories might have something to say to us.

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Book Title: This Here Flesh : Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

Number of Pages: 224 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale

Topic: Spirituality, American / African American, Meditations, Christian Life / Spiritual Growth, Storytelling, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2023

Genre: Religion, Performing Arts, Social Science, Self-Help, Literary Collections

Item Weight: 6.8 Oz

Author: Cole Arthur Riley

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback