Summary
Leila Mottley, a young author from Oakland, California, wrote a novel called "The Girls Who Grew Big." The book follows three young women facing pregnancy and motherhood in a Florida town with changing abortion laws. Mottley also works as a doula and aims to challenge negative views about teen mothers.
Key Facts
- Leila Mottley wrote "The Girls Who Grew Big," which is about young motherhood.
- The story is set in Florida, where abortion laws changed during the writing process.
- Mottley works as a doula, helping parents during and after birth.
- The novel talks about forming support communities for new parents.
- Mottley was Oakland’s Youth Poet Laureate and published her first book, "Nightcrawling," at 19.
- "Nightcrawling" was longlisted for the Booker Prize, an important book award.
- The novel explores diverse experiences of young motherhood across race and class.
- Mottley highlights relationships between young women and older men in the story.
