Jade Is a Twisted Green
A Novel

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me an ARC! Yeah, so. The first thing I want to say is that I am Asian-American, raised in a mostly-white environment in the middle of the fucking Midwest. In other words, I know very little about Black people and Black culture. Was this book intended for an aud......more

Such a great book about coming of age in Toronto as a queer Black woman, dealing with grief from losing her twin sister.......more

This is a coming of age story that is so beautifully written. I sympathize with jade so much, not knowing who you are and trying to figure it all out. Not only that but also trying to live with grief and not being able to cope with it at first. Like I said this story is beautiful, is it life changing......more

2.5 Jade Is a Twisted Green follows Jade, a black queer woman from Toronto, as she deals with grief in the wake of her twin sister's death. Jade is trying to find herself again while processing this grief after she put her entire life on pause. We see her through an array of situations, reconnecting......more

i went into this book with the understanding that it was a story of becoming and in particular, a story that follows a queer black woman as she lives through her stages of becoming after the loss of her sister. i was drawn to it instantly because of this and thanks to the arc i received from netgall......more