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tragic time in our lives, we felt so completely supported by our community,” she says. Broughty Cole’s car was found March 8. When his body was recovered a few days later, police said there didn’t appear to be signs of foul play. The Endlessly Forking Snake Tongue captures the writer’s take on this surreal intersection of mystery, love and grief. The title refers to a drawing Broughty once sketched for his sister; the writing is frank and spare, never overly Jamaica cole first wrote The endlessly Forking Snake Tongue to sentimental. process the memory of her brother, who died in 2014. In one passage, Cole recounts how hearing a song in a cafe brought back memories of the first time she’d heard the tune, on a childhood In 2014 Jamaica Cole’s brother, local musician car ride with her two brothers, Kalan and Broughty. Broughty Cole, disappeared en route to a gig. A week Years later, she questions the reliability of memory. later he was found, drowned in the Sacramento River. “Though you remember this objectively unreJamaica Cole, a writer, clothing designer and markable country drive from 24 years ago, you are artist, immediately jotted down her experiences, but it likely the only one who does. If there’s no one to would be years before she shared them with anyone. corroborate the account, maybe you’ve recalled it Now, she has published a memoir, The Endlessly wrong,” she writes. “Through either death or forgetForking Snake Tongue (Cuneiform Press, $20). She’ll fulness, one by one, everyone else in the car vanishes, read from it Saturday, June 15 at the Red Museum until you are alone in the backseat staring out for the book’s launch event. the window in silence.” “I didn’t intend for it to be a book After her brother’s death, Cole The at the beginning, I was writing for decided it was time to leave myself as a way of processing,” Cole Endlessly California. Her best friend, who told SN&R on the phone from her lived in Lockhart, suggested Forking Snake car, several miles from her home in Texas. “California felt so lonely Tongue captures the Lockhart, Texas. to me,” she says. “[In Texas], At first it served as a way to writer’s take on the I felt such a weight off my understand her feelings, then to shoulders with new things in surreal intersection preserve memories. front of me.” of mystery, love “It felt like an important thing There, she fell in with a to remember. It was a really strange and grief. group of writers and eventually time,” she says. met Cuneiform Press publisher Kyle The 28-year-old drummer was last heard Schlesinger, who helped sculpt her varifrom the night of March 3, 2014, on his way to a ous writings into the book. show in Nevada City with his band Lasher Keen. He With her return to Sacramento this week, Cole never showed up for the show, nor to another one the says she wants the reading, which will include sets next night in San Francisco. she’s built, to connect others. Initially, friends and family weren’t too worried. “I hope that [it helps] people who have trouble Broughty was something of a free spirit, after all, so talking about how they feel or thinking that they’re maybe something came up or his car broke down the only person in the world feeling a certain way,” somewhere. Eventually, however, the family filed a she says. “I don’t want people to feel alone in that.” Ω missing persons report and took to social media for help. Cole remembers driving around town with her family: It was awful, but in some small way magical catch Jamaica cole at the book release party 7 p.m. saturday, June 15 at the for the way the search united friends and strangers. red museum, 212 15th street. No cover; order a copy of the book ($20) at “Even though it was a such a tumultuous and cuneiformpress.com. for more about the author, visit jamaicacole.com. Photo courtesy of Jamaica cole
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