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Queenie

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.

Genre
literary fictionwomen’s fiction
Themes
datingidentitypsychologicalwomen
Setting
2010senglandlondon
Mood
emotionalthought provokingsadfunny
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 392 pages

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