{"product_id":"queenie-paperback-1","title":"Queenie - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCandice Carty-Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES* \"A book that sneaks up on you...I am hooked.\" --Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author This acclaimed and \"welcome debut from a seriously talented author\" (New York Post) is a disarmingly honest, unapologetically black, and undeniably witty novel that will speak to those who have gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-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. \"A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all\" (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author), Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today's world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCandice Carty-Williams is a writer, now a showrunner, and the author of the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) bestselling \u003ci\u003eQueenie\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted by Goodreads for book of the year in 2019 and won the British Books Awards Book of the Year in 2020, and \u003ci\u003ePeople Person\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2016, Candice created and launched the Guardian 4th Estate Short Story Prize, the first inclusive initiative of its kind in book publishing. Candice has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ei-D\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and pretty much every publication you can think of. She will probably always live in South London. Follow her on Instagram @CandiceC_W.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463721673011,"sku":"9781501196027","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/nm1fELijoZ9781501196027.webp?v=1781586903","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/queenie-paperback-1","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}