9780143107941-0143107941-Re Jane: A Novel

Re Jane: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780143107941
ISBN-10: 0143107941
Edition: Reprint
Author: Patricia Park
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780143107941
ISBN-10: 0143107941
Edition: Reprint
Author: Patricia Park
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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Re Jane: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780143107941 and ISBN-10: 0143107941), written by authors Patricia Park, was published by Penguin Books in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Re Jane: A Novel (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.31.

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Re Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures.”—Entertainment Weekly

For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s grocery store and politely observes the traditional principle of nunchi (a combination of good manners, hierarchy, and obligation). Desperate for a new life, she’s thrilled to become the au pair for the Mazer-Farleys, two Brooklyn English professors and their adopted Chinese daughter. Inducted into the world of organic food co-ops and nineteenth–century novels, Jane is the recipient of Beth Mazer’s feminist lectures and Ed Farley’s very male attention. But when a family death interrupts Jane and Ed’s blossoming affair, she flies off to Seoul, leaving New York far behind.

Reconnecting with family, and struggling to learn the ways of modern-day Korea, Jane begins to wonder if Ed Farley is really the man for her. Jane returns to Queens, where she must find a balance between two cultures and accept who she really is. Re Jane is a bright, comic story of falling in love, finding strength, and living not just out of obligation to others, but for one’s self.

Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul, and back, this is a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and a poignant Korean American debut.
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