Queenie : a novel

Resource Information

The work Queenie : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Queenie : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Candice Carty-Williams

Creator

• trueCarty-Williams, Candice, 1989-

Author

• trueCarty-Williams, Candice, 1989-

Subject

• Human skin color
• Human skin color -- Fiction
• Identity (Psychology)
• Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Jamaicans
• Jamaicans -- England | London -- Fiction
• London (England) -- Race relations -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Race relations
• Women -- Identity
• England -- London
• Women, Black -- England | London -- Social conditions -- Fiction
• Women, Black -- Social conditions
• Women -- Identity -- Fiction
• Fiction

Genre

• Psychological fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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. 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

Cataloging source

LW1

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction