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A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened--and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder in this "smart, compulsively readable novel" ( The New York Times ).
Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.
Jade has become everything she ever wanted to be.
Successful lawyer.
Dutiful daughter.
Beloved girlfriend.
Loyal friend.
Until Jade wakes up the morning after a work event, naked and alone, with no idea how she got home. Caught between her parents who can't understand, her boyfriend who feels betrayed, and her job that expects silence, the world Jade has constructed starts to crumble.
Jade thought she was everything she ever wanted to be. But now she feels like nothing at all.
For fans of Queenie and I May Destroy You , Jaded is a blistering--and sometimes darkly funny--account of consent, power, race, sexism, and identity in a broken society.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Lee's promising debut probes what happens when a British woman's carefully constructed persona shatters after she's sexually assaulted. The daughter of a Turkish father and a South Korean mother, Jade Kaya was born Ceyda Kayaoğ lu. At 25, Jade has assimilated into upper-class English society, immersed in her high-powered job practicing corporate law and involved with a wealthy white boyfriend, Kit. Everything about her life is practiced and studied--down to the name Jade, which began as her "Starbucks name." After she's sexually assaulted by a colleague, however, she reconsiders her relationships and aspirations. Kit's performative support for marginalized people doesn't extend to sticking up for Jade against his friends' casual racism, and her two best female friends disagree on whether she should file a formal workplace complaint. At times, these characters can feel more like straw men than real people. Lee is better, though, at untangling the complicated emotions wrapped up in Jade's evolving relationship with her parents, who fear she will lose hold of her material successes and grieve their home countries. Though somewhat lacking in nuance, this is carried along by flashes of genuine rage and connection. (Mar.)
Booklist Review
Debut novelist Lee deconstructs the aftermath of sexual assault in this lucid coming-of-age novel. At 25, Jade has already made an impressive life for herself. A successful lawyer with a caring, well-off, long-term boyfriend, Kit, Jade has fulfilled her Turkish father's and Korean mother's dreams for her after they immigrated to England. At a work party, after a senior partner plies Jade with alcohol, a coworker helps her home, only to rape her. Jade remembers little at first, but when her bruises, vaginal pain, and terrorizing flashbacks all start to come into focus, she finds little support and lots of victim blaming. Her seemingly perfect life begins to crumble as Kit shows his true colors and her two close friends disagree about reporting the perpetrator. Even Jade's mother urges her to just put it behind her and move on. All of this is told through Jade's lens as a woman of color navigating primarily white spaces. Jaded is a painful story with hefty emotion and is sure to spark conversations about consent, race, and success.
Library Journal Review
DEBUT Lee's debut explores issues of her protagonist's identity and the roles she must take on in order to exist in a city and a workplace where racism and sexism have deep impacts. Ceyda, known as Jade to everyone but her family, works as a lawyer in a high-powered London firm. Her immigrant parents are Korean (mother) and Turkish (father). They created a loving home for her but their expectations for her success in life drive Jade to succeed, even when she's not sure that she likes what she's doing. One morning after a law firm party, Jade wakes with no memory of how she got home and discovers disturbing clues about what might have happened to her the night before. As she pieces the evening together, she finds the rest of her life is crumbling around her. The more she learns, the harder it gets to keep it all to herself. But if she doesn't, the results will be literally life changing. VERDICT A thoughtful, unflinching examination of all of the ways in which women (especially women of color) conform to fit others' expectations, how damaging that can be, and the empowerment of subverting constraints. For readers who appreciated Kate Elizabeth Russell's My Dark Vanessa.--Jane Jorgenson