Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Buy on AmazonNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT! “[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” —Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You For fans of Luster and I May Destroy You, a disarmingly honest, unapologetically black, and undeniably witty debut 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.…
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"Queenie has been pitched as Black Bridget Jones, a label one could find a bit offensive. But author Candice Carty-Williams has no such qualms, as long as it gets people to read her book – in fact, she came up with the phrase. Carty-Williams’ desire to handle race bluntly and clearly, yet refuse to be dogmatic about it, just as she was with the label Black Bridget Jones, is what makes her debut novel sing. Her heroine – a young black woman in the U.K. struggling to make it as a journalist while also figuring out money, family and love – brings you into her world as if she’s known you forever, right from the start; the opening scene of the book has our heroine enduring an OB-GYN visit from hell, narrating the whole ordeal while in stirrups. This book is equal parts millennial comedy and treatise on modern race relations, and a work of fiction that leaps from the page as all truth, no filler."
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