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ONE OF TIMEÕS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF NPRÕS BEST BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMANÕS DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT!

Ò[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.Ó ÑJojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You

Bridget JonesÕs Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has 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 sheÕs 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 placesÉincluding 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, ÒWhat are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?ÓÑall of the questions todayÕs woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.

With Òfresh and honestÓ (Jojo Moyes) prose, Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in todayÕs world.