Queenie

One of Time Magazine'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!

“Brilliant, timely, funny, and heartbreaking.” (Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You) For fans of The Shining and I May Destroy You, this compellingly honest, unapologetically Black, and undeniably smart debut novel will speak to anyone who has searched for love and found something very different in it. Queenie Jenkins, a 25-year-old British-Jamaican woman living in London, teeters between two cultures, neither fitting in easily. Working at a national newspaper, she is constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers. After a tumultuous breakup with her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places... including dangerous men who are good at occupying her mind and not so good at affirming her worth. As Queenie lurches from one dubious decision to the next, she finds herself asking, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?” - These are all questions that today's woman faces in a world trying to answer them. In a style that is "fresh and honest" (Jojo Moyes), Queenie offers a wonderful exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today's world.