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Queenie was a tough read. TW: sexual violence. The friendships in this book make it worth it - but it requires navigating a whole lot of reading about awful men. It takes a long time, but this book excels in character development and in creating a cast of fully realized characters.

I feel like this book really addressed the issues of being in your mid-20s, when many books tend to focus on the teens or the early coming-of-age stages. There is a lot of growing and stumbling and trying to figure out how to navigate every-day microagressions through the life of Queenie, a black girl living in Britain. I had heard several comparisons to Bridget Jones' Diary and it's important to note that while it is funny at times, it is also very dark and troubling in others.