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“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir” by Khadijah Queen; c.2025, Legacy Lit, $30, 348 pages.

“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” author Khadijah Queen.

Marco Giugliarelli for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2023

Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez

K eep your head down.

Stay steady, mind your business, and don’t compare yourself to others. You are where you are for a reason, don’t lose sight of it. There’s a prize at the end, and endurance is the only way to get it. You have a job to do and, as in the new memoir “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” by Khadijah Queen, you’ll do it until you can’t.

Khadijah Queen hated Inkster, Michigan.

She had begged to stay in L.A. but her mother ignored her pleas and moved the family to Inkster to ta

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