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Queenie

By: Publisher: London : Trapeze, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Description: 392 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781409180074
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • ZZ 5.
Summary: Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.
List(s) this item appears in: SLaM Library Black History Month and anti-racism books | SLaM leisure reading | SLaM Library Celebrating Black Women Books (Black History Month 2023)
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Item type Home library Collection Class number Status Date due Barcode
Book Hirson Library (St Helier) Shelves P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Issued 21/06/2024 040080
Book Sally Howell Library (Epsom) Shelves P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 012515
Book South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves PAP ZZ 5 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Issued 31/05/2024 023478

First published: Trapeze, 2019. Paperback edition 2020.

Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.

As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.

A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.

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