Award-winning author Deesha Philyaw talks about The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, the 20 years she spent shaping Cherise, and why she writes faith and desire as tensions rather than opposites. She also shares updates on TV adaptations of her work and what she hopes Black women take away from her new novel.

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