ONE OF
TIME
’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
NAMED 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. 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.
With “fresh and honest” (Jojo Moyes) prose,
Queenie
is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today’s world.