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September 20, 2023 - Apogee Journal
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September 20, 2023

On Artmaking, Reading as Craft, and Chlorine: Jade Song interviewed by JoAnna Mak

I met Jade Song in 2020 through a writing group, not long after they’d started writing their debut novel, Chlorine. In alternating accounts between Ren, a competitive high school swimmer, and Cathy, her best friend, the novel puts the dark horrors of adolescence into sharp focus – with freedom only made possible through a life in the water. Imaginative, bold, and defiant, Chlorine is as mythical as it is unapologetically honest.