Big Girl

<p><b>A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD</b><br><b><br>*''Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay with me forever'' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE</b><br><b>*''A gift as big, beautiful and complicated as living itself'' Jacqueline Woodson, author of RED AT THE BONE</b><br><b>*''Hilariously funny and quietly devastating'' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of PATSY and HERE COMES THE SUN</b><br><b>*''There are three books on earth that I would give anything to be able to write and reread until the suns burns us up. <i>Big Girl</i> is one of those books'' Kiese Laymon, author of HEAVY</b><br><br><b>Growing up in rapidly gentrifying 90s Harlem,</b> 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; by sixteen, a gastric bypass is discussed.<br><br>But tensions at home are mounting as rapidly as Malaya''s weight, and soon a family tragedy forces her to finally face the source of her hunger on her own terms...<br><b><br>An extraordinary debut novel shot through with remarkable nuance and tenderness, <i>Big Girl</i> is the unforgettable portrait of a queer Black girl as she learns to take up space in the world.</b></p>