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Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group, 2025.
“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a large-hearted, compulsively readable memoir shot through with courage and razor-sharp intelligence. Queen’s magnificent personal reckoning helps me to ponder what new forms of relation might be possible between ourselves, our nation, and the many institutions charged with stewarding the common good.” ― Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, author of Life on Mars and Wade in the Water
“Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea is yet another extension of the brilliant universe of Khadijah Queen, one where the pages are richly populated. With people, with places, with rich, granular details. And, with all of that population, still, an attention to and affection for each single part of the larger machine, which makes Queen's narrative world-building feel like it is reaching for you, demanding you to enter, and be walked through each place, each life, each passage of time. This book is a gift.” ―HANIF ABDURRAQIB, MacArthur Fellow, National Book Award finalist, and author of There’s Always This Year: On Basketball & Ascension and A Little Devil in America
“Narratives of military life so often falter by cutting away from the quotidian. Khadijah Queen’s Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea does the exact opposite; by working the beauty of her mind and intuition, humor and manifestations of home as both civilian and service member she brings new life to our reflections on structural violence and the importance of narrating an honest self through the real and re-imaginable world.” –JOSEPH EARL THOMAS, author of Sink, Leviathan Beach, and God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group, 2025.
“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a large-hearted, compulsively readable memoir shot through with courage and razor-sharp intelligence. Queen’s magnificent personal reckoning helps me to ponder what new forms of relation might be possible between ourselves, our nation, and the many institutions charged with stewarding the common good.” ― Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, author of Life on Mars and Wade in the Water
“Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea is yet another extension of the brilliant universe of Khadijah Queen, one where the pages are richly populated. With people, with places, with rich, granular details. And, with all of that population, still, an attention to and affection for each single part of the larger machine, which makes Queen's narrative world-building feel like it is reaching for you, demanding you to enter, and be walked through each place, each life, each passage of time. This book is a gift.” ―HANIF ABDURRAQIB, MacArthur Fellow, National Book Award finalist, and author of There’s Always This Year: On Basketball & Ascension and A Little Devil in America
“Narratives of military life so often falter by cutting away from the quotidian. Khadijah Queen’s Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea does the exact opposite; by working the beauty of her mind and intuition, humor and manifestations of home as both civilian and service member she brings new life to our reflections on structural violence and the importance of narrating an honest self through the real and re-imaginable world.” –JOSEPH EARL THOMAS, author of Sink, Leviathan Beach, and God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
