With “fresh and honest” (Jojo Moyes) prose, Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today’s world.Īn international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies author's Korea, Please Look After Mom is a stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their missing mother - and their discovery of the desires, heartaches and secrets they never realized she harbored within.

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.Īs 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. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers.

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…īridget Jones’s 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. And why he never shows his art to anyone. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background.

Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.īut when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.

Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.īut it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly.

Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.

After almost-but not quite-dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list.

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