Meet Queenie Jenkins. She’s a 25-year-old Jamaican-British woman living in London, trying to navigate a messy breakup, a demanding media job, and the constant microaggressions of daily life. When her life starts to unravel, she has to figure out who she really is—and what she deserves.
Candice Carty-Williams delivers a brutally honest, deeply funny, and heartbreakingly relatable novel about identity, modern dating, and the power of family and friendship. It’s exactly the kind of smart, culturally rich contemporary fiction we love to feature in our Korner!