Queenie
About this book
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.
Subjects
- dating (social customs), fiction
- fiction
- fiction / african american / contemporary women
- fiction / contemporary women
- fiction / literary
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, women
- identity
- jamaicans
- london (england), fiction
- self-realization in women
- women