Litquake's Epicenter: Patricia Park in Conversation with Vanessa Hua
Organization:
Litquake Literary Festival
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
2/22/2016
End Date:
2/22/2016
Start Time:
7:00 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Patricia Park's debut novel, Re Jane. Park will be in conversation with Vanessa Hua, with book sales and signing to follow.
Re Jane is a contemporary retelling of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. The novel follows the life of Jane Re-a half-Korean, half-white orphan sent to live with her uncle in Flushing, Queens. She 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's new life, she flies off to Seoul, leaving New York far behind.
Patricia Park is author of the debut novel Re Jane, a Korean-American retelling of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre set in NYC and Seoul. She received her BA in English literature from Swarthmore College and her MFA in fiction from Boston University. She was a Fulbright scholar to South Korea, an Emerging Writers fellow with The Center for Fiction, and a Fellow with the American Association of University Women. Her essays have been published in the Guardian, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Slice Magazine, and others.
Vanessa Hua is the author of a debut short story collection to be published in 2016 (Willow Books). A former Steinbeck Fellow, winner of the James D. Phelan Fiction Award, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, she has contributed to The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.
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