Queenie (Unabridged)
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
*SOON TO BE A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES*
*ONE of NPR’s and TIME’s BEST BOOKS of the YEAR * NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of the YEAR by WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, and BOOK RIOT!*
“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
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.
The
If you are like me and like to listen to the audio while you read the book then you should know that this audio is not exactly like the book. A lot of the sentences are paraphrased. Other than that great audio!
I grew to appreciate it
The protagonist is human! I wish I got a better sense of that from the beginning instead for multiple chapters in the first half of the book she was irritating. The story arc is something I can appreciate, I just give it a 4 out of 5 because I wish the beginning of the book had the same energy as the later half. But overall, the writer did an amazing job and I hope there is a part two because Queenie’s story isn’t finished.