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Queenie : A novel/ / Candice Carty-Williams

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Carty-Williams, Candice(1989-...). Auteur

Edité par Gallery/Scout Press. New York - 2019

Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.She finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.
Anglaise d'origine jamaïcaine, Queenie habite à Londres avec Tom, son petit ami, et débute une carrière prometteuse. Lorsque ce dernier la quitte, elle sombre dans une spirale infernale et enchaîne les mauvaises expériences, malgré le soutien de ses amies Darcy, Kyazike et Cassandra. En tant que jeune immigrée noire, Queenie doit se battre et relever la tête coûte que coûte. Premier roman.

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