Re Jane : A Novel - Hardcover

Patricia Park

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525427406 ISBN 13: 9780525427407

Publisher: VIKING PRESS USA, 2015

Synopsis

Jane Re is a Korean-American orphan, and Queens is her home. Jane toils in her Uncle's grocery store, desperate for an escape. When she lands a job as an au pair for the Mazer-Farleys - Brooklyn English professors with an adopted Chinese daughter - Jane is thrilled. Introduced into a whole new life that's worlds apart from the traditional Korean community she knows, she finds herself surrounded by organic food co-ops and 19th-Century novels. An original, contemporary recasting of Jane Eyre, Re Jane is a funny, moving novel about being true to yourself.

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Review:

&quotRe Jane really succeeds well in transplanting the basic ideas and plot of Jane Eyre into the modern day, and indeed, into a different culture entirely. Despite seeming completely unrelated to the culture of English society in the 1800s, rewriting Jane as a half Korean orphan makes a huge amount of sense... A fantastic adaptation of a classic novel, Re Jane is a great read. Funny, moving and enlightening." - --The Bookbag

About the Author:

Patricia Park was born and raised in New York City. She earned her BA in English from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she studied with Ha Jin and Allegra Goodman. A former Fulbright Scholar and Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she has published essays in The New York Times, Slice, and The Guardian. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: VIKING PRESS USA
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0525427406
• ISBN 13: 9780525427407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346