Bøger af Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE'As big, beautiful and complicated as living itself'Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone 'I ate this up in one greedy, joyous gulp . . . Hilariously funny and quietly devastating'Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Patsy'What is a child's body worth when it is big, Black and female - when it is under constant demand to be something other than what it naturally is? In Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's achingly beautiful coming-of-age debut, Big Girl, this body carries the weight of an entire neighbourhood . . . Big Girl triumphs as a love letter to the Black girls who are forced to enter womanhood too early - and to a version of Harlem that no longer exists' New York Times'A thrilling, big-hearted novel'Chigozie Obioma, author of An Orchestra of Minorities'There are three books on earth that I would give anything to be able to write and reread until the sun burns us up. Big Girl is one of those books'Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy'As quietly revolutionary as Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha or Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John. Resetting the conversation about girlhood, desire, bodies and appetites, this book is a revelation' Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie

The award-wining collection 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 social world of the West Village, the Spanish-speaking borderland between Harlem and Washington Heights, and historic Tin Pan Alley - the collection uses magic realism, historical fiction, satire and more to highlight young black women's inner lives.The storylines range widely: a big-bodied teenage girl from Harlem discovers her sexuality in the midst of racial tensions at her Upper East Side school; four young women from Newark, New Jersey, are charged with assaulting the man who threatens to rape them; a pair of conjoined black female twins born into slavery, make their fame as stage performers in the Big City. In each story, the characters push past what is expected of them, learning to celebrate their voices and their lives.In honor of Mecca Sullivan's being named the recipient of the 2018 Judith A. Markowitz Lambda Award as an emerging LGBTQ writer, Riverdale Avenue Books has released a second edition of her acclaimed collection for which the Lambda judges called Sullivan, "An essential writer of our present moment.""We are so proud of Mecca for receiving this prestigious award. She made her fiction debut with Riverdale Avenue Books five years ago, when we were both new to the literary scene, and we are publishing an updated second edition with the wonderful quote from Ntozake Shange on the cover to commemorate this achievement," said Publisher Lori Perkins.*****"In Blue Talk and Love... the lives of wounded and glorious young gay women of color are portrayed with the delicacy of a mother tending to her terrible wounds…Sullivan enriches our lives with ...characters, who are so rich and impoverished at once." -Ntozake Shange, author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf "An essential writer of our present moment" -Judges for the 2018 Judith A. Markowitz Lambda Emerging LGBTQ Writer Award 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