Queenie
CBC Books | | Posted: November 25, 2019 8:22 PM | Last Updated: December 6, 2019
Candice Carty-Williams
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. (From Simon & Schuster)
From the book
"Can you just bring your bottom riiiiight to the edge of the exam table?" the doctor asked as I inched myself down closer to her face. Honestly, I've no idea how they do it.
"Deep breath, please!" she said a bit too cheerfully, and with no further warning inserted what felt like the world's least ergonomic dildo into me and moved it around like a joystick. She placed a cold hand on my stomach, pressing down every few seconds and pursing her lips every time I squealed. To divert my attention from this manipulation of my insides, I checked my phone. No reply.
From Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams © 2019. Published by Simon & Schuster.