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Jaded by Ela Lee
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Narrator Rosa Escoda

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Length 10 hours 10 minutes
Language English
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Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.


Jade has done all the right things.

She's curated herself to fit right in at her law firm, but tells herself she has no choice.
She's with a man who loves her, but isn't always herself around him.
She's made her Omma and Baba proud, but resents that they can't properly understand her.

Jade is perfectly in control of her life.

Until one terrible night unravels Jade's carefully constructed world, leaving her wondering who she truly is.

JADED is a refreshing and bitingly honest debut novel about how one shocking event can upend everything... and asks, what would you have done in her situation?

ยฉ2024 Ela Lee (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Ela Lee was born in 1995 and is a British-Korean-Turkish writer. She studied Law at the University of Oxford and went on to practise as a City lawyer. In 2021, during the global pandemic, Ela began work on her debut novel, JADED, which explores themes of consent, race, and identity. She lives in London, with her partner and their mini Aussie Shepherd.

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Author:

Narrator:
Rosa Escoda

ISBN:
9781529919226

Length:
10 hours 10 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Random House

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Edition:
Unabridged

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Reviews

A raw, compulsive and nuanced novel about identity, race and consent One of 2024's hottest reads This raw, dark novel explores racism, class and sexism and you'll want to savour every word on every page JADED is a thoughtful, hard-hitting exploration of race, identity, and the rippling effects of sexual assault. Ela Lee writes with an urgency and clarity that will have you hooked until the last page. Ela Lee is a remarkable new voice in fiction. I tore through JADED โ€“ it made me laugh, cry and really bloody furious Ela Lee is an electrifying new voice, and this is an ambitious gut-punch of a novel. Like I May Destroy You meets Industry, itโ€™s a witty, nuanced and thought-provoking interrogation of attitudes towards race, power and consent Wonderfully multi-faceted and emotionally compelling Jaded is a sharp, bold and compulsively readable story of power, money, sex and survival. Ela Lee writes with utter clarity and heartbreaking insight about the cost of survival in cut-throat corporate environments and about the gray space between complicity and compromise. Urgent and necessary, this is a book that will take up space in your heart and mind long after the last page Bold ... A tightly-wound, claustrophobic unravelling of one woman that is one of the yearโ€™s most thoughtful reads Brutal but sadly realistic, JADED is a clarion call against the resounding silence of corporate law which has gone untouched and unmoved by #metoo. Quietly devastating Expand reviews
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