Big Girl: A Novel

  Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeFinalist for the Gotham Book PrizeA Phenomenal Book Club PickTIME • Best Books of the MonthNew York Times • Editors’ ChoiceVulture • Most Anticipated Books 2022Goodreads • Hot and Fresh: 60 Highly Anticipated Debut NovelsMs. Magazine • Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of Us 2022SheReads.com • Best Books Coming in Summer 2022Essence • 18 New Books We Can’t Wait To Read This SummerAn extraordinary debut novel shot through with remarkable nuance and tenderness, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers of the profoundly lovable Malaya Clondon. “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 cent