Description
Through time, space, and the transcendence of maternal love, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is reimagined in the parallel lives of one soul searching for meaning, connection, and a place to belong.
Jane Eyre is a missionary’s wife.
A bookseller in Vietnam.
A time traveler.
A hero in a modern gothic tale.
What if Jane’s story didn’t end with her marriage to Edward Rochester? What if she never married him at all?
In one lifetime, Jane travels to India and Burma as Mrs. St. John Rivers. In another, she’s Trang, a young woman selling books in Vietnam, vying for the love of the local priest. Yet another picks up where Brontë left her, now grieving the loss of her child and crossing time and space to find him. And finally, a young Vietnamese-American man searching for himself in Boston, a tutor whose relationship with a veteran feels strangely, achingly familiar…
Each thread tells Jane’s story in sweeping, heartbreaking shades of loss, vulnerability, yearning, and the fierce love of mother and child that withstands time and space. While she may long for something more out of a life she didn’t get to choose, she can still decide what to make of it.
(c) 2026 by Marian Yee, all rights reserved.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marian Yee
Published: 06/30/2026
Publisher: Little a
ISBN: 9781662537912
Pages: 269
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 0.75″ H x 8.48″ L x 5.51″ W
About the Author
Yee, Marian: –
Marian Yee is a writer, scholar, and award-winning teacher. As a professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences Department at Berklee College of Music, she teaches writing, literature, and visual studies to performing arts students. Marian’s published writings include poems, reviews, and scholarly articles. 4 Janes is her debut novel, inspired by a trip to Vietnam in 1995, where she met a street seller who was reading an abridged copy of Jane Eyre to learn English. The author lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her family.
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