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.