Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran's Memoir by Khadijah Queen (Hardcover)

Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Military - Women - Family & Relationships - Parenting - Motherhood - Social Science - Feminism & Feminist Theory RELEASE DATE: 8/5/2025  (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a poet’s memoir about family, survival, and one servicewoman’s search for autonomy. Yanked out of college and torn from her sunny hometown of Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Khadijah Queen finds herself sharing a basement apartment with her mother and sister and working two retail jobs in snowy, tiny Inkster, Michigan. Longing to escape the cycle of her family’s poverty, incarceration, and addiction, she joins the US Navy, determined to earn money to finish college and make it back to L.A. on her own terms. But soon after Queen completes her grueling training and boards a doomed destroyer, she finds herself faced with near-constant sexual harassment, demeaning