The Girls Who Grew Big
I really enjoyed Nightcrawling, so I was really anticipating this release. Like in her previous novel, in The Girls Who Grew Big , Mottley writes as her characters speak. There’s a rhythm to it. The language is sometimes crude, some passages are poetic. Divided in three trimester, just like pregnancy, The girls who grew big is set in Padua Beach, Florida. We follow the lives of a group of mostly teenage mothers. There is three main girls. First, Simone, 21 who lives in her truck with her four-year-old twins. Tooth, their father, is not really present. More preoccupied about himself than about his kids. Then there’s Emory, 17, who somehow planned pregnancy. She lives with her grandparents and has been since her mom, who is addicted to drugs, abandoned her when she was little. She is white and her son Kai’s father is African American. This fact matters as her grandfather is racist. Emery has nev...