Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Broschiertes Buch

Big Girl

A BBC Radio Two Book Club Pick. 'Absolutely incredible' Candice Carty-Williams

Beschreibung

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' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Patsy 'What 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, Big Girl, this body carries the weight of an entire neighbourhood . . . Big Girl 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 'A thrilling, big-hearted novel' Chigozie Obioma, author of An Orchestra of Minorities '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 '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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 133mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780349017853
• ISBN-10: 0349017859
• Artikelnr.: 65940964