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Re Jane: a novel

Title
Re Jane: a novel / Patricia Park ; read by Diana Bang.
Author
Park, Patricia
Publication
New York : Penguin Audio, 2015.
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  • Bang, Diana
  • OverDrive, Inc.
Description
1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital
Summary
Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul, and back, this is a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and a poignant Korean American debut 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 nineteenth́⁰₃century 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.
Subject
  • Korean American women > Fiction
  • Au pairs > Fiction
  • Man-woman relationships > Fiction
  • Au pairs
  • Korean American women
  • Man-woman relationships
Genre/Form
  • Audiobooks.
  • Fiction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Title details screen (OverDrive ; viewed April 30, 2015).
ISBN
  • 9780698404083
  • 0698404084
OCLC
  • 906807803
  • 906807803
Author
Park, Patricia, author.
Title
Re Jane: a novel / Patricia Park ; read by Diana Bang.
Publisher
New York : Penguin Audio, 2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Performer
Read by Diana Bang.
Note
Title details screen (OverDrive ; viewed April 30, 2015).
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Bang, Diana, narrator.
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