Doubleday wins five-way auction for Philyaw’s debut novel
Doubleday has triumphed in a five-way auction for the debut novel from Deesha Philyaw, the author of short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Pushkin One), which won the Pen Faulkner Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for a National Book Award.
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