Mecca Jamilah Sullivan: 'The culture of disordered eating and dieting is still thriving' | Fiction

The American writer on her debut novel about weight and womanhood set in 90s Harlem, how her mother’s Black feminist books changed her life and writing a work of hip-hop magic realism

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