Girls Who Grew Big is replacing parents in the

is replacing parents in the lives of children

Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia

a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel

In its concision

Craftsmanship

Girls Who Grew Big is replacing parents in theFrom the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle. Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother's home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. When she arrives, Adela meets Emory, who