Queenie was so much more then I had expected and I loved it for that.
Queenie is a twenty something Jamaican British woman living in London trying to be a part of two worlds yet not quite fitting into either. She has an interesting job working for a national newspaper where she is constantly comparing herself to her white middle class peers. She is on a "break" with her long time white boyfriend after she receives some news that she hadn't expected to get and doesn't necessarily want to share with anyone. This is where things start to fall apart for her she enters into these awful "relationships" and I use that term loosely with terrible men. She is having trouble concentrating at work and not getting things done. She hits rock bottom and ends up in a living situation where she isn't happy and trying to discover who she is and how to move forward.
There is a lot going on with this book. I was rooting for her all the way even when I didn't initially understand some of the decisions she made and wanted to just ask her why. As we discover more about her and her past I just wanted to be there and support her.
I don't want to disclose to much here and I don't even know that this review really does it any justice, but I will say one last thing if you are thinking about reading this stop thinking and just do it. This is well written and made makes you really look at things from a different perspective.
Queenie is a twenty something Jamaican British woman living in London trying to be a part of two worlds yet not quite fitting into either. She has an interesting job working for a national newspaper where she is constantly comparing herself to her white middle class peers. She is on a "break" with her long time white boyfriend after she receives some news that she hadn't expected to get and doesn't necessarily want to share with anyone. This is where things start to fall apart for her she enters into these awful "relationships" and I use that term loosely with terrible men. She is having trouble concentrating at work and not getting things done. She hits rock bottom and ends up in a living situation where she isn't happy and trying to discover who she is and how to move forward.
There is a lot going on with this book. I was rooting for her all the way even when I didn't initially understand some of the decisions she made and wanted to just ask her why. As we discover more about her and her past I just wanted to be there and support her.
I don't want to disclose to much here and I don't even know that this review really does it any justice, but I will say one last thing if you are thinking about reading this stop thinking and just do it. This is well written and made makes you really look at things from a different perspective.