QUEENIE GODMOTHER OF HARLEM GN APR231936 Winner of the Raymond Leblanc

Winner of the Raymond Leblanc Foundation\'s Belgian Prize

and rock and roll deity in history

in all its daily struggles and daydreams

protecting its citizens from the city\'s totalitarian overlords

QUEENIE GODMOTHER OF HARLEM GN APR231936 Winner of the Raymond LeblancQueenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint Clair the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint Clair left the island in 1912 and headed for the United States, eager to make a new life for herself. In New York she found success, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem\'s mafia and a fierce defender of the Black