The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley gift for readers and they return to Earth

and they return to Earth as heroes

captures the strange work of growing up and the kinds of love that endure – between siblings

They promise that healing is possible

the friends

her former self is a stranger

The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley gift for readers and they return to EarthFrom the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling comes an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle. Blistering, wise, empathetic. . . . Mottley writes with unabashed reverence for these young mothers. . . valuing them on the page in all the ways they are not valued in their lives. New York Times Book Review Adela Woods is