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Season 2, Episode 25: Author of ReJane, Patricia Park

April 24, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

patriciaparkRECORDED 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 

A great interview with @patriciapark718 about her book ReJane! #multiracial

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“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.

.@patriciapark718 biracial narrator in ReJane will capture your heart! #multiracial

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PATRICIA PARK WILL BE TOURING TO:

rejane

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

 

Filed Under: Books, Episodes Tagged With: biracial, debut novel, growing up biracial, heidi durrow, Korean adoptee, Patricia Park, ReJane, transracial adoption

Episode 1: Natalie Baszile author of Queen Sugar

March 31, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

enhanced-buzz-wide-19031-1396280861-19Episode 1: How wonderful to kick off the first episode of The Mixed Experience podcast with the talented debut novelist Natalie Baszile, author of Queen Sugar.  Listen to our interview here.  And also check out the Q&A that we did for Buzzfeed.  Natalie is still on the road for a few more weeks so check out her touring schedule, but most definitely go get her book!–Heidi Durrow

Filed Under: Books, Episodes Tagged With: debut novel, heidi durrow, mixed, mixed experience, mixed festival, natalie baszile, queen sugar

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Heidi Durrow is the New York Times best-selling writer of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky and the founder of the original mixed roots film and book festival and now the founder of Mixed Remixed Festival , an annual film, book and performance festival, which will be held next on June 10-11, 2016 at … [Read More]

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