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A gift as big, beautiful and complicated as living itself' Jacqueline Woodson, author of RED AT THE BONEGrowing up in rapidly gentrifying 90s Harlem, 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 di...

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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 Mock Malaya Clondon hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings in the church's stuffy basement community center. A quietly inquisitive eight-year-old struggling to sup...

A beautifully written debut novel, Big Girl is a smart, moving coming-of-age story, with issues of race, size, class and belonging. It is also a love letter to a community that is vanishing before the protagonist's eyes - Harlem in the 80s and 90s.

Malaya Clondon hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings in the church's stuffy basement community centre. A quietly inquisitive eight-year-old struggling to suppress her insatiable longing, she would much rather paint alone in her bedroom, or sneak out with her father for a sampling of Harlem's forbidden street foods.For Malaya, the pressures of going to an exclusive, predominantly white prep school are compounded by the hig...

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Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)¿s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women¿s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the texture...

Blue Talk and Love's "voice, despite material that seems frankly contemporary, is paradoxically lyrical, nearly Faulknerian." --Rick Moody, judge for the American Short Fiction Short Story Contest Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and mazes of urban daily life. Set in various enclaves of New York City - including the middle-class Hamilton Heights section of Harlem, the black queer soc...