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Author Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah, author.

Title Big girl : a novel / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F SULLIVAN, M.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  F SULLIVAN MECCA JAMILAH    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  SULLIVAN, MECCA JAMILAH    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Fiction  FIC-SULLIVAN    Lost and Paid
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SULLIVAN, M    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 266 pages ; 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.
Subject Obesity in children -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Body size -- Fiction.
Body image -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Bildungsromans.
Novels.
ISBN 9781324091417 (hardcover)
132409141X (hardcover)
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