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?Alive with delicious prose and the cacophony of ?90s Harlem, Big Girl gifts us a heroine carrying the weight of worn-out ideas, who dares to defy the compulsion to shrink, and in turn teaches us to pursue our fullest, most desirous selves without shame.? ?Janet MockMalaya Clondon hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings in the church?s stuffy basement community center. A quietly inquisitive eight-year-old struggling to suppress her insatiable longing, she would much rather paint alone in her bedroom, or sneak out with her father for a sampling of Harlem?s forbidden street foods.For Malaya, the pressures of going to a predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are compounded by the high expectations passed down over generations from her sharp-tongued grandmother and her mother, Nyela, a painfully proper professor struggling to earn tenure at a prestigious university. But their relentless prescriptions?fad diets of cottage-cheese and sugar-free Jell-O,

Author : Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

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ISBN-10 : 9781324093596

ISBN-13 : 9781324093596