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The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley book lover gift and is immediately tangled upFrom 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