num_pages: 384
description: Growing up in a loving and supportive middle-class family in Washington DC in the '60s Naomi Jefferson worries about what to wear her bra size and meeting boys and she has dreams of one day opening her own clothing store. While she knows racism is a problem (occasional brushes with the uglier side of people don't let her forget it) Naomi is at heart just like any other teenage girl. All of that changes when Joshua Naomi's older brother is killed in an accident on his way to a civil rights demonstration in Chicago. Racism becomes a personal issue and Naomi decides that she needs to help bring about changes in the system. At college in Atlanta she becomes immersed in politics organizing protests and butting heads with school administrations as well as with her boyfriend who isn't too friendly to the cause. Disillusioned by authority figures and betrayed by the man she loves Naomi returns home confused about the world and her place in it.
language: English
title: Big Girls Don't Cry
publisher: Harper