Big Girl Small

DeWoskin, Rachel

ISBN 10: 1441795405 ISBN 13: 9781441795403

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Judy Lohden finds her three feet nine inches tall, incredibly talented self in the middle of a scandal, with the national media on her trail and the students at Darcy Academy, a local performing arts high school, involved in the mayhem.

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Review:

Praise for "Repeat After Me":
“Rachel DeWoskin is that rarest of things: a real writer. She is musical and smart, serious and fun, modern and timeless. "Repeat After Me "is a masterwork—a hilarious, sad, page-turning masterwork.” —Darin Strauss, author of "Cheng and Eng"

"The voice of Judy Lohden will ring in my head for weeks to come. A first page so funny and fierce I read it aloud to my teenagers--in public. Judy stuffs Holden Caulfield right back into his dusty museum case and shows us the rawness and the dark humor of today's coming-of-age experience. Judy Lohden speaks for all young people facing the unspeakable ignorance of others. Yet Rachel DeWoskin handles the story with the sensitivity of a scalpel and a humor that leaves the reader howling. I was delighted and moved." --Helen Simonson, author of "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
"""Big Girl Small" is the most engaging novel I've read in many years. DeWoskin has aimed the book at all the pleasure centers: it's sad, funny, quirkily suspenseful, and--most of all--beautiful. I can't imagine a more satisfying read. A book for anyone, anywhere, who's ever felt alien or different. That is, a book for everyone." --Darin Strauss, author of "Chang and Eng" and "More Than It Hurts You
""I loved reading "Big Girl Small" as much as I loved watching "The Breakfast Club" for the first time. Is Rachel DeWoskin our new John Hughes?" --Isabel Gillies, author of "Happens Every Day
""This is what Rachel Dewoskin wants to know: how do you go on living in a world that exalts creativity yet stifles difference? DeWoskin describes exactly what high school kids are like: the smart ones, and the sensitive ones, and the okay ones, and the happy ones, and the fake ones, and the twisty artists, and the true talents, and in the middle of it all, her exuberant creation Judy Lohden--a stellar phenomenon growing like a poppy towards the sun. Witty, intuitive, and moving, "Big Girl Small" examines the crucial moment when we either listen to what the world says and stay small, or dare to sing out at the top of our lungs." --Nicola Keegan, author of "Swimming
""DeWoskin deftly captures the often vicious dynamics of adolescents, which mask their fragility, and creates in Judy an un

"Wonderfully engaging...captures the way adolescence renders one's own identity somehow unknowable, perhaps because 'we contain various versions of ourselves, ' and high school is the time of maximum pressure to choose just one."---"The Boston Globe
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"Amusing, hypnotic...Like a contemporary version of "The Wizard of""Oz "or its coming-of-age antecedent, "Alice""in Wonderland, " Judy's experiences of adolescence are exhilarating, terrifying, and almost uniformly surreal."---"Time Out "(New York)"Compelling..."Big Girl Small "brings back high school in raw, oozing detail, like a psychic skinned knee."---Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air""A fine novel...The desire to find out precisely what [happened to Judy] will keep you reading as fast as you can."---"The Dallas Morning News ""The most engaging novel I've read in many years...It's sad, funny, quirkily suspenseful, and---most of all---beautiful. I can't imagine a more satisfying read....A book for everyone."---Darin Strauss, author of "Chang and Eng" and "More Than It Hurts You"""

Wonderfully engaging captures the way adolescence renders one's own identity somehow unknowable, perhaps because we contain various versions of ourselves, ' and high school is the time of maximum pressure to choose just one. "The Boston Globe"

Amusing, hypnotic...Like a contemporary version of "The Wizard of" "Oz "or its coming-of-age antecedent, "Alice" "in Wonderland, " Judy's experiences of adolescence are exhilarating, terrifying, and almost uniformly surreal. "Time Out (New York)"

Compelling..."Big Girl Small "brings back high school in raw, oozing detail, like a psychic skinned knee. "Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"

A fine novel The desire to find out precisely what [happened to Judy] will keep you reading as fast as you can. "The Dallas Morning News"

The most engaging novel I've read in many years...It's sad, funny, quirkily suspenseful, and---most of all---beautiful. I can't imagine a more satisfying read....A book for everyone. "Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and More Than It Hurts You""

Wonderfully engaging captures the way adolescence renders one's own identity somehow unknowable, perhaps because we contain various versions of ourselves, ' and high school is the time of maximum pressure to choose just one. The Boston Globe

Amusing, hypnotic...Like a contemporary version of The Wizard of Oz or its coming-of-age antecedent, Alice in Wonderland, Judy's experiences of adolescence are exhilarating, terrifying, and almost uniformly surreal. Time Out (New York)

Compelling...Big Girl Small brings back high school in raw, oozing detail, like a psychic skinned knee. Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

A fine novel The desire to find out precisely what [happened to Judy] will keep you reading as fast as you can. The Dallas Morning News

The most engaging novel I've read in many years...It's sad, funny, quirkily suspenseful, and---most of all---beautiful. I can't imagine a more satisfying read....A book for everyone. Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and More Than It Hurts You

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"Wonderfully engaging...captures the way adolescence renders one's own identity somehow unknowable, perhaps because 'we contain various versions of ourselves, ' and high school is the time of maximum pressure to choose just one." --The Boston Globe

"Amusing, hypnotic...Like a contemporary version of The Wizard of Oz or its coming-of-age antecedent, Alice in Wonderland, Judy's experiences of adolescence are exhilarating, terrifying, and almost uniformly surreal." --Time Out (New York)

"Compelling...Big Girl Small brings back high school in raw, oozing detail, like a psychic skinned knee." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"A fine novel...The desire to find out precisely what [happened to Judy] will keep you reading as fast as you can." --The Dallas Morning News

"The most engaging novel I've read in many years...It's sad, funny, quirkily suspenseful, and---most of all---beautiful. I can't imagine a more satisfying read....A book for everyone." --Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and More Than It Hurts You

About the Author:

Rachel DeWoskin is the author of Foreign Babes in Beijing, a memoir about her inadvertent notoriety as the star of a Chinese soap opera, and a novel, Repeat After Me. She lives in New York City and Beijing and is at work on her fourth book, Statutory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1441795405
• ISBN 13: 9781441795403
• Binding: Audio CD