**Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A Phenomenal Book Club Pick TIME โข Best Books of the Month New York Times โข Editors' Choice Vulture โข Most Anticipated Books 2022 Goodreads โข Hot and Fresh: 60 Highly Anticipated Debut Novels Ms. Magazine โข Most Anticipated Reads
Big Girl: A Novel
โ Scribed by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
- Book ID
- 111932506
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781324091417
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โฆ Synopsis
**A Phenomenal Book Club Pick
TIME โข Best Books of the Month
Vulture โข Most Anticipated Books 2022 - Vulture
Goodreads โข Hot and Fresh: 60 Highly Anticipated Debut Novels
Ms. Magazine โข Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of Us 2022
SheReads.com โข Best Books Coming in Summer 2022
Essence โข 18 New Books We Can't Wait To Read This Summer
Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon.**
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils--and undeniable beauty--of insatiable longing.
Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she'd rather paint alone in her bedroom or enjoy forbidden street foods with her father. For Malaya, the...
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