Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan audiobook

Big Girl: A Novel

By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Read by Lisa Reneé Pitts

Highbridge Audio 9781324091417

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
  • $49.99

    ISBN: 9798212237833

  • $45.95

    ISBN: 9798212237826

Runtime: 12.05 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Longlisted for the Gotham Prize

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize

A Time Magazine Pick of the Month

A July 2022 LibraryReads Pick

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week

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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“[An] achingly beautiful coming-of-age debut novel." New York Times Book Review
"This is a treasure." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[A] young girl learns―and redefines―what it means to take up space…A lyrical and important coming-of-age novel.” Kirkus Reviews
“Lisa Renee Pitts delivers a spirited narration of this coming-of-age debut…Her energy and expressiveness capture the raw emotions of the characters, helping to keep listeners engaged…A skillfully voiced portrait of complex characters and relationships.” AudioFile

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Author Bio: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Author Bio: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of the novel Big Girl, the book The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, and the short-story collection Blue Talk and Love, winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary. A native of Harlem, she is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University.

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Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 12.05
Audience: Adult
Language: English