Big Girl: A BBC Radio Two Book Club Pick. 'Absolutely incredible' Candice Carty-Williams - Couverture rigide

Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah

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ISBN 10 : 0349017840 ISBN 13 : 9780349017846

Editeur : Virago, 2023

Synopsis

A brilliant debut from a hugely talented writer. Compelling and compassionate, Big Girl is an unforgettable portrait of a queer Black girl as she learns to take up space in the world. It's also a love letter to a community that is vanishing before the protagonist's eyes -Harlem in the 80s and 90s - its music, flavours and sounds.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, PhD is the author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, winner of the Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and the short-story collection, Blue Talk and Love, winner of the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary. She is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. A native of Harlem, she currently lives in Washington, DC.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

'As big, beautiful and complicated as living itself'
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone

'I ate this up in one greedy, joyous gulp . . . 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

'There are three books on earth that I would give anything to be able to write and reread until the sun burns us up. Big Girl is one of those books'
Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy


'A thrilling, big-hearted novel'
Chigozie Obioma, author of An Orchestra of Minorities

'As quietly revolutionary as Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha or Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John. Resetting the conversation about girlhood, desire, bodies and appetites, this book is a revelation' Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie

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A THING IS MIGHTY BIG WHEN TIME AND DISTANCE CANNOT SHRINK IT

It 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, but now she looked at it differently. She wondered for the first time if there could be something good about bigness, something mighty about not shrinking, after all.

Growing up in rapidly gentrifying 90s Harlem, Malaya struggles to fit into a world that makes no room for her. She's funny, creative and smart, but all people see - even those who love her - is her size. At eight, she is forced to go to Weight Watchers; at twelve, her parents fear she'll be taken from them; at sixteen, a gastric bypass is discussed.

On good days, Malaya braids bright colours into her hair, turns up Biggie Smalls on her Walkman, and strides through Harlem, his words galvanising her; on bad days, she doesn't leave her bed other than for furtive trips for the forbidden food that will comfort her - for a while.

Compelling and passionate, Big Girl is an unforgettable portrait of a queer Black girl as she learns to take up space in the world on her own terms.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349017840
• ISBN 13: 9780349017846
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible