I'm sorry, but back in my day this girl would be described as a slut. I've read elsewhere that this book was highly anticipated and that all millennials will have experienced the same issues that Queenie is going through. The narrator does a great job and her voice is the only reason I've listened to as much as I have. I just don't think I can even finish this book. I'll start by saying that I'm not a millennial. #mentalhealthawareness #book24of2019 #bookworm #whatsnext This book is highly recommended for all women of color. Friends holding one another accountable and having each other's back. Chessca, Darcy, and Cassandra were her real friends, I love their love for her. Racism was visited along with sexual harassment, and sexism.Through therapy she was able to free herself from generational black women issues. Queenie slept with different men after a miscarriage and a breakup with her boyfriend if 3 years. Her not knowing her worth or not seeing her beauty and settling for ain't shit men, white men because she didn't think she was beautiful enough for a brother to love her. Her support system, friends, and coworkers. Her trauma growing up, her relationship with her mother and grandparents was spot on. Queenie's life echoes so many black women. Talking about the taboo of therapy in the black community and how being strong is holding in feelings and keep going. As though being black wasn't enough but being a black jamaican coconut (black shell but white inside) living in London was the topping on the cake. Whew Chile.this book was a breath of fresh air. 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. After a messy breakup from her White long-term 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.Īs 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.

She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her White middle-class peers.

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. “rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” (Jojo Moyes, number one New York Times best-selling author of Me Before You)įor 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. Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by Woman’s Day, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, Bustle, and Book Riot!

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams