{"product_id":"queenie-9781501196027-new","title":"Queenie","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY \u003ci\u003eWOMAN’S DAY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNEWSDAY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBUSTLE\u003c\/i\u003e, AND \u003ci\u003eBOOK RIOT\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” —Jojo Moyes, #\u003ci\u003e1 New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Me Before You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBridget Jones’s Diary \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emeets\u003ci\u003e Americanah \u003c\/i\u003ein 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueenie 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith “fresh and honest” (Jojo Moyes) prose, \u003ci\u003eQueenie \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today’s world.","brand":"Gallery\/Scout Press","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52158276960416,"sku":"9781501196027-new","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0463\/0115\/1392\/files\/51XCf_J33aL.jpg?v=1736154760","url":"https:\/\/shop.mtwyouth.org\/products\/queenie-9781501196027-new","provider":"More Than Words ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}