Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church Cookbook_Gift_Guide Leila has three magical sisters

Leila has three magical sisters who are happy to share their culinary secrets with her

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Okorafor creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels

and how this serves as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness

Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church Cookbook_Gift_Guide Leila has three magical sistersTwenty one timely, affecting essays by those who survived hardline, authoritarian religious ideology and uprooted themselves from the reality averse churches that ultimately failed to contain their spirits. Winner of the 2019 Eos Award. In this necessary and revealing anthology, Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O'Neal collect original and previously published pieces about leaving Christianity. Examining the intersections of queerness, spiritual abuse, loss