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Title details for Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams - Available

Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams
Shvorne Marks
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*NOW 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.

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  • Release date

    March 19, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781508277972
      • File size: 281151 KB
      • Duration: 09:45:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Resolved: Writer Candice Carty-Williams is the writer of her generation; Queenie, its character; and Shvorne Marks, its voice. Marks gives a power performance as millennial Queenie, and Brits of various origins and accents: Pakistan, Uganda, Jamaica, and all the UK. You'd listen to Marks read web code, she voices this audiobook so magnetically. To wit: Queenie's group-texts with The Corgis--her gal pals, with their diverse personalities. Queenie traverses her family, relationships and hookups, and work, looking for meaning and acceptance. The characters are well actualized, thanks to Marks's distinct expression and Queenie's relationships with them. The only way out is through, and this character goes through it all--in graphic detail. Squeamish situations are hilarious, and Queenie's low points are touching. Worthy of multiple listens. M.P.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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