Re Jane: A Novel

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Re Jane: A Novel

â€œRe Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly

For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place sheâ€™s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncleâ€™s grocery store and politely observes the traditional principle of nunchi (a combination of good manners, hierarchy, and obligation). Desperate for a new life, sheâ€™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 nineteenthâ€“century novels, Jane is the recipient of Beth Mazerâ€™s feminist lectures and Ed Farleyâ€™s very male attention. But when a family death interrupts Jane and Edâ€™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 oneâ€™s self.

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

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Patricia Park
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780698170780
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
NumberOfPages	354
PublicationDate	2015-05-05
Publisher	Penguin Books
ReleaseDate	2015-05-05
Studio	Penguin Books

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