Ted Lasso · Season 3, Episode 9, "La Locker Room Aux Folles"
Jade's Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
Jade (Edyta Budnik)
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What it tells you
Near the end of La Locker Room Aux Folles, Nate comes by after walking out on Rupert, and Jade is reading Kafka on the Shore. Books, Beans and Botany and two fan lists agree on Jade and the book. Only M.B. Davis gives the episode.
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The book
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2002 · novel
Haruki Murakami's 2002 novel has a teenage runaway and an old man who can talk to cats. Jade spent two seasons barely speaking to Nate. She has the patience for Murakami, so of course she waited him out.
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