Queenie : a novel

ISBN: 9781501196010
ISBN: 1501196014
ISBN: 9781501196027
ISBN: 1501196022
Physical Description: print 330 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scout Press, 2019.
Copyright: &copy;2019

Carty-Williams, Candice 1989- (author.).

Summary: 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.