Jane Eyre with a Korean-American Immigrant Spin

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 6, 2015

Patricia Park is the author of  Re Jane: A Novel, a contemporary retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. This time Jane is a half-Korean, half-American orphan and Flushing Queens is the place she’s trying to escape. 

→ EVENTS: Patricia Park reads from Re Jane: A Novel tonight, May 6 at BookCourt in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn at 7pm and Saturday, May 9 at Barnes & Nobel Bay Terrance at 2 PM

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