Queenie (Unabridged)
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4.3 • 170 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
*NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES*
“A book that sneaks up on you...I am hooked.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author
This acclaimed and “welcome debut from a seriously talented author” (New York Post) is a disarmingly honest, unapologetically black, and undeniably witty novel that will speak to those who have gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.
Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-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.
“A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all” (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author), Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today’s world.
Customer Reviews
Hang in there
You’ll get through it and smile by the end. Many understand this time period.
Funny and Cringing
There are many “girl, no!” moments, and so many “been there, done that” moments. It was both funny and cringing as it made me relieve so many bad decisions I’ve made throughout my twenties and and early thirties. A good read to share a laugh with friends.
MUST READ
Queenie was a really interesting and thought provoking book. It delved into the mental mechanics behind the lack of self-love. I appreciated the rawness surrounding Queenie's path of self destruction in her sexapades. Her reasoning as to why she was self destructing was explained and the therapeutic reason was revealed in an exciting and excruciating way.
This book showed the current injustice worldwide that appears to be both obvious and oblivious at the same time.