TY - BOOK AU - Carty-Williams,Candice TI - Queenie : a Novel SN - 9781501196010 AV - PR6103.A7775 Q44 2019 U1 - 823/.92 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Scout Press KW - Women KW - Fiction KW - Identity KW - Self-realization in women KW - Multiculturalism KW - Jamaicans KW - England KW - FICTION / Contemporary Women KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Literary KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft N2 - "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"-- ER -