TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carty-Williams,Candice
TI  - Queenie: a novel 
SN  - 9781409180067
AV  - PR6103.A7775 Q44 2019
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scout Press
KW  - Jamaicans
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Identity
KW  - London (England)
N2  - 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
ER  -