Cover of Queenie

Book 2019

Queenie

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Publisher
Gallery/Scout Press
Published
2019
  • Fiction, women
  • Fiction, psychological
  • London (england), fiction
  • Dating (social customs), fiction
  • Jamaicans
  • Fiction
  • Women
  • Identity

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, 'What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?' -- all of the questions today's woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.