Re Jane: A Novel

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
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-05-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-05-05
Format	Kindle eBook

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