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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah.     Subjects     Obesity in children -- Fiction.     Children, Black -- Fiction.     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.     Life change events -- Fiction.     Body size -- Fiction.     Nineteen nineties -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah.       by title:      Big girl : a novel /...       by call number:      FICTION SUL     Search the Web     Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah.     Obesity in children -- Fiction.     Children, Black -- Fiction.     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.     Life change events -- Fiction.     Body size -- Fiction.     Nineteen nineties -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Big girl : a novel / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. by Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022. Call #: FICTION SUL Subjects Obesity in children -- Fiction.   Children, Black -- Fiction.   Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.   Life change events -- Fiction.   Body size -- Fiction.   Nineteen nineties -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781324091417 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  266 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "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 pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are relentless, as are the expectations passed down from her painfully proper mother and sharp-tongued grandmother. As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, but her weight continues to climb -- until a family tragedy forces her to face the source of her hunger, ultimately shattering her inherited stigmas surrounding women's bodies, and embracing her own desire. Written with vibrant lyricism shot through with tenderness, Big Girl announces Sullivan as an urgent and vital voice in contemporary fiction"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Bindungsromans. Black fiction. Historical fiction. First novel. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION SUL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION SUL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION SUL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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