The Broadneck Library will be closed Monday, April 1 - Tuesday, April 16 for branch improvements. Please plan to pickup your holds at another location

The Riviera Beach Library is currently closed. For more information on the new location, please visit the Riviera Beach Library

Re Jane: A Novel
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published:
Books on Tape 2015
Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
Re Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures.”—Entertainment Weekly
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 nineteenth–century 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.
Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul, and back, this is a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and a poignant Korean American debut.
Also in This Series
Formats
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
Works on MP3 Players, PCs, and Macs. Some mobile devices may require an application to be installed.
OverDrive Listen
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Like This
Other Editions and Formats
More Details
Street Date:
05/05/2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781101921739
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Patricia Park. (2015). Re Jane: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Patricia Park. 2015. Re Jane: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Patricia Park, Re Jane: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2015.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Patricia Park. Re Jane: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2015.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Anne Arundel County Public Library11
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
5887ac39-031f-d81e-869f-b15fd7c932bc
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 03, 2017 08:48:43
Date Updated:
Dec 06, 2020 04:28:04
Last Metadata Check:
Mar 24, 2024 06:29:01
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 24, 2024 06:29:01
Last Availability Check:
Mar 24, 2024 06:29:03
Last Availability Change:
Dec 06, 2023 00:32:08
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Mar 28, 2024 04:05:51

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/F67/579/B0/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/F67/579/B0/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780698404083
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101921739
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780698404083
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101921739
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
mediaType
Audiobook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Patricia Park
title
Re Jane
dateAdded
2020-09-24T08:20:00-04:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=51&titleID=2159632
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Maryland's Digital Library (MD)
          • id: 831
sortTitle
Re Jane A Novel
crossRefId
2159632
subtitle
A Novel
id
f67579b0-c775-4d5c-ac65-4899ab2587e2
starRating
3.2

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • duration: 13:29:47
      • fileName: ReJane_9780698404083_2159632
      • partCount: 11
      • fileSize: 388782352
      • identifiers:
            • audience: retailer
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780698404083
            • audience: library
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101921739
      • rights:
            • type: PlayOnPC
            • value: 1
            • type: PlayOnPCCount
            • value: -1
            • type: BurnToCD
            • value: 1
            • type: BurnToCDCount
            • value: -1
            • type: PlayOnPM
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToNonSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferCount
            • value: -1
            • type: CollaborativePlay
            • value: 0
            • type: PublicPerformance
            • value: 0
            • type: TranscodeToAAC
            • value: 1
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • onSaleDate: 5/5/2015
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2159632-ReJane.mp3
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • duration: 13:29:51
      • fileName: ReJaneANovel-61496
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 388735890
      • identifiers:
            • audience: retailer
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780698404083
            • audience: library
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101921739
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 5/5/2015
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2159632-ReJane.mp3
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Park, Patricia
      • bioText: Patricia Park was born and raised in New York City. She earned her BA in English from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she studied with Ha Jin and Allegra Goodman. 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 lives in Brooklyn, New York.
      • name: Patricia Park
      • role: Narrator
      • fileAs: Bang, Diana
      • name: Diana Bang
imprint
Penguin Audio
publishDate
2015-05-05T00:00:00-04:00
edition
Unabridged
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Re Jane
fullDescription
Re Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures.”—Entertainment Weekly
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 nineteenth–century 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.
Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul, and back, this is a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and a poignant Korean American debut.
reviews
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
      • content:

        March 16, 2015
        Park���s debut is a cheeky, clever homage to Jane Eyre, interwoven with touching meditations on Korean-American identity. Jane Re has never felt like she fit in, and not just because she���s a half-Korean orphan in the ���all-Korean, all the time��� enclave of Flushing, Queens. After graduating from CUNY, she���s still stocking shelves in her uncle���s grocery store while her overachieving peers have moved on to graduate school and high-profile finance jobs. Desperate for a change of scenery, Jane takes a job as an au pair for the Mazer-Farleys, a Brooklyn couple with an adopted Chinese daughter. Jane comes to love her charge, her new neighborhood, and her new bosses. But when the friendly bond she shares with Ed Farley goes a step too far, she flees New York for Seoul, where she gets in touch with her roots and uncovers a new sense of identity. Though the Brontë references occasionally land with the subtlety of an anvil, Park���s clever one-liners make the story memorable, and her riffs on cultural identity will resonate with any reader who���s ever felt out of place. Agent: Esmond Harmsworth and Lane Zachary, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth.

      • premium: True
      • source: AudioFile Magazine
      • content: Jane Re is half-American, half-Korean--and an unlikely character for this contemporary retelling of the British classic JANE EYRE. Jane's plucky, sarcastic interior monologue is delivered in bright tones by Diana Bang. The story takes listeners from the New York boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn to Seoul, Korea. We feel the ups and downs of being a multiracial orphan through Bang's characterization of Jane. As people are indifferent, inconsiderate, and downright mean to Jane, Bang delivers insensitive lines of dialogue filled with the glee of the mean-spirited. She uses believable accents to convey the novel's range of nationalities--from Brooklynites to Koreans living in America. At times, her emphatic delivery lacks variation in tone, but the fast-paced story keeps one listening. M.R. �� AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
popularity
140
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BaQAAAOQCAAA1L/products/f67579b0-c775-4d5c-ac65-4899ab2587e2/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
f67579b0-c775-4d5c-ac65-4899ab2587e2
starRating
3.3
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/F67/579/B0/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/F67/579/B0/{F67579B0-C775-4D5C-AC65-4899AB2587E2}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
publishDateText
05/05/2015
mediaType
Audiobook
shortDescription
Re Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures.”—Entertainment Weekly
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 nineteenth–century 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...
sortTitle
Re Jane A Novel
crossRefId
2159632
subtitle
A Novel
publisher
Books on Tape
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC044000
      • description: Fiction / Contemporary Women
      • code: FIC051000
      • description: Fiction / Cultural Heritage
      • code: FIC054000
      • description: FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander