Queenie

Description:

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: Fiction, women,  Fiction, psychological,  London (england), fiction,  Dating (social customs), fiction,  Jamaicans,  Fiction,  Women,  Identity,  FICTION / Contemporary Women,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / African American / Contemporary Women,  Self-realization in women