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About Jade Is A Twisted Green
Product Description For readers of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss.After the mysterious death of her twin sister, Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is without her other half.Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends during an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures. As she investigates some of life’s most frustrating paradoxes, she holds tight to old friends and her ex-girlfriend, lifelines between past and present. On the journey to turning twenty-five, she finally sees that she belongs to herself, and goes about the business of reclaiming that self.Through a series of whirlwind love affairs, parties, and trips abroad, Jade stumbles toward relinquishing the weight of her trauma as she fully comes into her own as a young Black woman and writer.A RARE MACHINES BOOK About the Author Tanya Turton is a storyteller, educator, and mental health advocate. She fell in love with storytelling when she began to feel displaced in her own world and found creative writing. Jade Is a Twisted Green is her debut novel. Hailing from Jamaica, Tanya was raised and lives in Toronto. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The WeddingJade woke to the slight caress of Tay’s hands tracing each tattoo on her back. She could feel the tiny hairs standing at attention, electricity pulsating through each nerve. It was still dark in her bedroom, and she could see the silhouette of their bodies framed on the wall.“A few years? Shit, a few weeks ago,” she thought, though this seemed impossible.In that moment she lay there at peace. She felt something at her feet and assumed it was her panties, but upon further investigation she realized she was still wearing them. It was her purple satin bonnet. Somehow each night she would start out with it on her head, and it would end up the next morning anywhere but there. Jade gently kicked it off the bed as she rolled closer and eventually into the arms of Tay. This was the first night they’d spent together, but it felt familiar and natural. As Jade lay there watching the wind blow her curtains gently, listening to the window fan turn as the humidifier gulped water, all of life felt as it should be. Nothing strange or out of place. It seemed almost like no time had passed between them.Their love had grown quickly over the weeks. After many long walks by the water and even longer evenings recollecting what had occurred during the time they’d been away from each other, the pieces were finally falling into place. They’d reconnected back in May and now it was the end of June; summer had officially started. It was Pride weekend in Toronto, their first Pride together. Making up for their many years of missed opportunities, they’d spent the night prancing down Church Street, sweating in a small club on College and then grabbing burgers on the way home. They wore distressed denim shorts and crop tops, Jade in her favourite Docs and Tay in her black casual heels. The June night was chilly, but passion and hormones kept them warm. Tay ran into an ex-lover on the corner of Church and Wellesley, which launched her and Jade into a lighthearted debate about studs and femmes in Toronto. A Vogue circle had broken out in the club, but in true island fashion, the boys were on their head top. The air of celebration and freedom wrapped around them, pulling them closer together and reminding them of what they could have had many years ago.As they rose that morning Tay smiled, her full lips separating slowly as her braces peeked through. She smiled a smile of knowing, as if the universe had sent her a message. She placed her hand on the small of Jade’s back and pulled her in closer, placing gentle kisses on her forehead.“You ready for today?”
