The Day My Kiffy Died

A story about a dying kiffy, but wholesome. Promise.Jojo is a forty-something Christian professor, a pastor's daughter, and the kind of woman who turns every crisis into a joke, until perimenopause arrives with vaginal atrophy and gives her the most dramatic diagnosis of her life.In Jojo's own words: my kiffy is dying.As if that weren't enough, she is engaged to Joshua, her younger, steady, sincere seafarer fiancé, who has loved her through the age gap, long-distance WiFi struggles, church judgment, and the complicated blessing of her best friend Gizelle, who also happens to be Joshua's mother.With the wedding approaching, a ghost from Jojo's past returns: Fredly, the one who got away, and the one who absolutely should have stayed away. Then comes Jemark, a photographer-singer who keeps turning Jojo's private life into songs, photos, and gossip.But between her diagnosis, her ex-con-turned-pastor father's dementia, Gizelle's fears as a mother, her D-group sisters with their prayer requests and gossip ministry, and her own quiet resentment toward God, Jojo begins to discover the holy message hidden inside her dying kiffy: Sometimes, something in the body has to die so the soul can remember what it means to live forever.The Day My Kiffy Died is a funny, tender, faith-laced novel about aging, womanhood, desire, shame, friendship, family, and the terrifying grace of being loved exactly when you feel least lovable.