An avid explorer of this flawed and fabulous world, a fearless and hilarious examiner of the heart’s mysteries, Jules Torti is a brilliant dynamo who reminds us that the optimism of youth and the courage to be true to oneself are shining examples of how to live large, go big and find a forever home and true love. "A walker, a talker and one helluva writer.
"Jules took me on a hilarious journey as she searched for her 'formula for happiness.' It’s sort of a Rubyfruit Jungle as told by Pippi Longstocking… No pirates (unless you count exes!), but lots of monkeys!" - Marnie McBean, Order of Canada, three-time Olympic champion At turns poignant, hilarious, and uncannily familiar, Free to a Good Home explores what it means to call a place home when life oddly mirrors a choose-your-own-adventure storybook. While she longed for a home of bricks and mortar (or log or stone), she knew her greatest sense of home was to be found in a person, the missing her. Whether prepping chimpanzees' breakfast in the Congo, scavenging for her own breakfast in the dumpsters of Vancouver, or seeking a permanent address in Ontario’s unforgiving real estate market, Torti found that homesickness took up its own residence in her identity.
Torti continued searching the world for home.
At eighteen, with one thousand dollars in her bank account, she moved to the West Coast from Ontario to find “her people.” She headed specifically to Davie Street-that’s where all the gays were! Finding a girlfriend proved to be elusive, but she learned a lot of Pet Shop Boys lyrics and studied everything by Jane Rule and Chrystos for guidance.
Free to a Good Home is evidence of Torti’s life-long commitment to feeling at home where it mattered most: within herself. Though Jules Torti is neither German nor a wildebeest, she understands this marrow-deep anxiousness all too well. The German word zugunruhe translates as the “stirring before moving.” It’s used to describe birds and herds of animals, like wildebeests, before migration.
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