Remember the author of Nightcrawling? That incredible Oprah's Book Club pick? Well, Leila Mottley is back with an astonishing new novel, and you are going to want to talk about this one.
The book is called The Girls Who Grew Big, and it’s about this fierce, unforgettable group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle.
It all starts with Adela Woods. She's sixteen, pregnant, and her parents essentially banish her from her comfortable life in Indiana to her grandmother's home in Padua Beach, Florida. It's a whole new world. And that's where she meets the Girls.
There’s Emory, who brings her newborn baby to high school with her, absolutely determined to graduate against all odds. There’s Simone, already a mom to four-year-old twins, who finds herself pregnant again and has to weigh her options. Together, they are part of a tight-knit group of outcast young moms who raise their kids together in the back of Simone’s red truck.
The whole town looks at them and thinks they've lost their way. But here's the beautiful, heartbreaking truth of it: they are finding it. They're navigating the miracle of motherhood while still living through the paradox of their girlhood. They're looking for love, making and breaking friendships, and figuring it all out.
Set against a backdrop of their secrets and betrayals, this book is just so full of heart and life. It's an explosive, necessary new perspective on what it means to be a young woman today.
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