QUEENIE

A 25-year-old Jamaican-British woman who lives in London, Queenie Jenkins straddles two cultures yet fits well into neither. She works for a major newspaper, where she is compelled to continuously contrast herself with her white middle-class coworkers. Queenie looks for solace in all the wrong places after a difficult breakup with her long-term white partner, including a number of risky males who do a fine job of taking up mental space but a poor job of boosting self-esteem.

What are you doing? Queenie finds herself asking as she veers from one dubious choice to another. What is your motivation? What do you hope to become?