{"id":50896,"date":"2016-12-26T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50896"},"modified":"2016-12-26T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T16:47:53","slug":"re-jane-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50896","title":{"rendered":"Re Jane: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re Jane: A Novel<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pamela Dorman Books<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Random House)
\n2015-05-05
\n352 Pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0143107941<\/p>\n

Patricia Park<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens<\/a>, is the place she\u2019s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle\u2019s grocery store and politely observes the traditional principle of nunchi<\/em><\/a> (a combination of good manners, hierarchy, and obligation). Desperate for a new life, she\u2019s thrilled to become the au pair<\/a> for the Mazer-Farleys, two Brooklyn<\/a> English professors and their adopted Chinese daughter. Inducted into the world of organic food co-ops and nineteenth\u2013century novels, Jane is the recipient of Beth Mazer\u2019s feminist lectures and Ed Farley\u2019s very male attention. But when a family death interrupts Jane and Ed\u2019s blossoming affair, she flies off to Seoul<\/a>, leaving New York<\/a> far behind.<\/p>\n

Reconnecting with family, and struggling to learn the ways of modern-day Korea<\/a>, Jane begins to wonder if Ed Farley is really the man for her. Jane returns to Queens<\/a>, where she must find a balance between two cultures and accept who she really is. Re Jane<\/em> is a bright, comic story of falling in love, finding strength, and living not just out of obligation to others, but for one\u2019s self.<\/p>\n

Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul, and back, this is a fresh, contemporary retelling of\u00a0Jane Eyre<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and a poignant Korean American debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park \u00a0\u00a0 For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she\u2019s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8,15,20],"tags":[6675,228,596,25856,25855,25857,25858,229],"class_list":["post-50896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-brooklyn","tag-korea","tag-new-york-city","tag-pamela-dorman-books","tag-patricia-park","tag-penguin-random-house","tag-queens","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50898,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50896\/revisions\/50898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}