This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback

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This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback
  • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback
  • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback
  • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback
  • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback

$18.00

by Cole Arthur Riley (Author)

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

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, 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.

Author Biography

Cole Arthur Riley is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Executive Curator. Born and for the most part raised in Pittsburgh, Cole studied Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She once took a professor's advice very seriously to begin writing a little every day, and has followed it for nearly a decade.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: January 31, 2023

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