The Seamstress-Frances De Pontes Peebles.The Matchmaker of Perigord-Julia Stuart.
When Melvin “Big Country” arrives from Murfreesboro, North Carolina, he likes Big Mama whom he calls “Shawtie”, but she rejects his passes. She also hides her feelings for the school’s star baler Josiah, who is seeing her friend Deeyah. However, she is worried about her twin sister Toi who sneaks out of the house to be with her hood of a boyfriend.
In Newark size fourteen sixteen years old Seven “Big Mama” McKnight struggles somewhat with self esteem as the thickest person on her clique, but being bigger also makes her feel she is fly.