"What God is Honored Here? is a collection of 22 expressions of loss, pain, and recovery by women of color. Most essays are non-fiction, with two fiction pieces and three poems" Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Reclaiming Life /Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang -- the lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton -- Then and Then / Sidney Clifton -- Lessons from Dying / Sarah Agaton Howes -- April is the Cruelest Month / Michelle Borok -- Not Everything is a Patch of Wildflowers / Maria Elena Mahler -- Tilted Uterus: When Jesus is Your Baby Daddy / Taiyon J. Coleman -- The Pursuit of Happiness / Jennifer N. Baker -- Untranslation / Kari Smalkoski -- Flunking Math / Arfah Daud -- Returning to Morro Bay / Arfah Daud -- Avenue of Poplars in Autumn / Arfah Daud -- Sianneh: The Trip Was Good / Shannon Gibney -- Binding Signs / Dania Rajendra -- Massimo's Legacy / Diana Le-Cabrera -- The Ritual / Rona Fernandez -- The Night Parade / Jami Nakamura Lin -- Kamali's Still Birth / Janet Lee-Ortiz -- Three Marias / Jen Palmares Meadows -- Susannah Wheatley Tends to the Child (Re)Named Phillis, Who is Suffering from Asthma / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- The Face of Miscarriage / Soniah Kamal -- A Dream Deferred / Marcie Rendon -- Pity / Seema Reza -- Calendar of the Unexpected? / Catherine R. Squires -- Blighted / Elsa Valmidiano -- In the Month of August / Kao Kalia Yang -- Either Side / Chue Moua, with Kao Kalia Yang -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Miscarriage / Sun Yung Shin.