Ourshelves with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Jul 05, 2023•49 min•Season 6Ep. 2
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Episode description
Join Lucy Scholes as she talks with American author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about her debut novel, Big Girl – reviewed by the New York Times as ‘achingly beautiful’ – about a young black girl growing up in 1990s Harlem. On the table for discussion is coming-of-age fiction, beauty standards, women’s bodies and matrilineal traditions.
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