Big Girl

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE<br><br>*''Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay with me forever'' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE<br>*''A gift as big, beautiful and complicated as living itself'' Jacqueline Woodson, author of RED AT THE BONE<br>*''Hilariously funny and quietly devastating'' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of PATSY and HERE COMES THE SUN<br>*''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><i>A THING IS MIGHTY BIG WHEN TIME AND DISTANCE CANNOT SHRINK IT<br>It was a quote by Zora Neale Hurston. Malaya liked the words. The message was a mouthful of meaning, and it changed each time she read it. At first it had seemed ominous, but now she looked at it differently. She wondered for the first time if there could be something good about bigness, something m