66 pages 2 hours read

Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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Essay Topics

1.

What does this book suggest, or say, about the nature of intergenerational pain and trauma?

2.

Discuss the impact of the story’s structure—that is, a present-tense story with interjected flashbacks—on the novel. Why did Carty-Williams chose to write the book like this? Does it do the story justice? Why or why not?

3.

Write about one thing that you think is a moral of this story, providing textual evidence.