The Resource Big girl : a novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Big girl : a novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
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Resource Information
The item Big girl : a novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324091417
- Label
- Big girl : a novel
- Title
- Big girl
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3619.U4435
- LC item number
- B54 2022
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Obesity in children
- African American children
- Label
- Big girl : a novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1272854722
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324091417
- Lccn
- 2022011911
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1272854722
- Label
- Big girl : a novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1272854722
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324091417
- Lccn
- 2022011911
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1272854722
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