RECORDED 5/11/15: I loved speaking with writer Patricia Park who has a wonderful new debut novel called ReJane. ReJane is described as “a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and a poignant Korean-American debut novel that takes its heroine Jane Re on a journey from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul—and back.” The protagonist is a biracial young woman (a half-Korean, half-American orphan) from Flushing, Queens, looking for where she belongs in the world only to discover that she has to feel like she belongs in her own skin before she finds a landscape that will fit her. I read the book in one-sitting and loved it! I know you’ll enjoy this too! You can listen to the interview here or download it from itunes.–Heidi Durrow, Host of The Mixed Experience podcast
The book is already generating some great buzz:
“The Korean Americans of Queens find a daring new voice in Patricia Park’s debut novel, as she takes a story we know and makes it into a story we’ve not seen before—a novel for the country we are still becoming.” —Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night
“Patricia Park’s Re Jane is packed with authenticity, poignancy and humor. I was enchanted by this modern retelling of Jane Eyre as the tough yet vulnerable narrator captured my heart.”—Jean Kwok, bestselling author of Girl In Translation and Mambo in Chinatown
PATRICIA PARK was born and raised in Queens and is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. She earned her BA in English from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. A former Fulbright Scholar and Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she has published essays in The New York Times, Slice, and the Guardian. She has taught writing at Boston University, CUNY Queens College, and Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
PATRICIA PARK WILL BE TOURING TO:
May 6th Brooklyn, NY BookCourt / 7:00PM
May 9thBayside, NY Barnes & Noble Bayside / 2:00PM
May 11thBoston, MA Harvard Book Store In Conversation with MargotLivesey/ 7:00PM
May 12th San Francisco, CA Bookshop West Portal / 7:00PM
May 13th Seattle, WA Third Place Books / 7:00PM
May 14th Los Angeles, CA Vroman’s Bookstore / 7:00PM
May 16th Hackensack, NJ Barnes & Noble Hackensack / 11:00AM
May 20th Brooklyn, NY WORD Brooklyn In Conversation with Lisa Lutz/ 7:00PM
May 26th New York, NY The Center for Fiction In Conversation with Pamela Dorman/ 7:00PM
