{"product_id":"big-girl-9780349017846","title":"Big Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*''Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay with me forever'' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*''A gift as big, beautiful and complicated as living itself'' Jacqueline Woodson, author of RED AT THE BONE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*''Hilariously funny and quietly devastating'' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of PATSY and HERE COMES THE SUN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*''There are three books on earth that I would give anything to be able to write and reread until the suns burns us up. \u003ci\u003eBig Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those books'' Kiese Laymon, author of HEAVY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA THING IS MIGHTY BIG WHEN TIME AND DISTANCE CANNOT SHRINK IT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a quote by Zora Neale Hurston. Malaya liked the words. The message was a mouthful of meaning, and it changed each time she read it. At first it had seemed ominous, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMecca Jamilah Sullivan has given us \u003cb\u003ea gift as big, beautiful and complicated as living itself\u003c\/b\u003e, filled with everyday people who in her gifted hands, show us the love and struggle of what it means to be inside bodies that don't always fit with the outside world. I found myself cheering for Percy, Nyela, the Harlem streets and of course, for Malaya -- Jacqueline Woodson, author of RED AT THE BONE\u003cbr\u003eWhat is a child's body worth when it is big, Black and female - when it is under constant demand to be something other than what it naturally is? In Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's achingly beautiful coming-of-age debut novel, \u003ci\u003eBig Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, this body carries the weight of an entire neighborhood ... \u003ci\u003eBig Girl\u003c\/i\u003e triumphs as a love letter to the Black girls who are forced to enter womanhood too early - and to a version of Harlem that no longer exists * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThere are three books on earth that I would give anything to be able to write and reread until the suns burns us up. Big Girl is one of those books. The sound, the expansiveness of the whispers, the critical, brilliant, sometimes bruising, beautiful Black girlness explored in this novel is literally second to none... I know I have just read and reread a new American classic that we as a culture and country desperately need. Believe that -- Kiese Laymon, author of HEAVY\u003cbr\u003eI ate this up in one greedy, joyous gulp. I fell in love with Malaya Clondon from the very first page. This book is hilariously funny and quietly devastating - a compelling narrative about what it means to define ourselves and make space for our bodies as women -- Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of PATSY and HERE COMES THE SUN\u003cbr\u003eMecca Jamilah Sullivan has delivered a singular coming of age story. A book about the vulnerabilities of living in the body of a young Black girl, Sullivan has created a portrait of young adulthood as quietly revolutionary as Gwendolyn Brooks' \u003ci\u003eMaud Martha\u003c\/i\u003e or Jamaica Kincaid's \u003ci\u003eAnnie John\u003c\/i\u003e. Resetting the conversation about girlhood, desire, bodies and appetites, this book is a revelation for those who care about the rich, varied lives of Black youth -- Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of LIBERTIE\u003cbr\u003eAlive with delicious prose and the cacophony of '90s Harlem, Big Girl gifts us a heroine carrying the weight of worn-out ideas, who dares to defy the compulsion to shrink, and in turn teaches us to pursue our fullest, most desirous selves without shame -- Janet Mock\u003cbr\u003eAbsolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay with me forever' -- Candice Carty-Williams, author of PEOPLE PERSON and QUEENIE\u003cbr\u003eSullivan's talent shines most through her ability to embody character where most writers would simply observe them. 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