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MARY B
Everyone knows Jane Austen’s beloved classic, Pride and Prejudice, and its beloved heroine Lizzy Bennet. But what of Mary, the middle sister and underdog of her family?
The "plain" sister, bookish and reserved, Mary Bennet has been consigned to the shadows in favor of lively Lizzy and beautiful Jane. Across two hundred years of Pride and Prejudice adaptations and remakes, Mary has rarely been given more than a supporting role--until now. In this accomplished debut, Katherine Chen banishes Mary's prim exterior and reveals a heroine anyone can relate to, with an inner life brimming with passion, conflict and contradiction (think Jane Eyre!).
While the novel parallels Pride and Prejudice in the beginning, seeing familiar events through Mary’s sharp eye, it truly takes off after Lizzy and Darcy wed. Mary goes to visit her sister at Pemberley, and her encounters and experiences there will transform her forever. MARY B takes unexpected and bold turns, and we as readers come to root for and love Mary as she grows into a woman and confronts the twin tumults of romance and her artistic dreams of becoming writer.
This is a novel for anyone who has ever felt like the plain sister, the less-brilliant friend, or the wallflower in the room. MARY B is an entertaining and modern tribute to one of the most famous novels in the world, but just as importantly, author Katherine Chen has crafted a heroine to whom contemporary women everywhere can relate, while delving into the complex realities of being a young woman on the marriage market.
Katherine Chen has effortlessly mastered Austenian prose and tone, and brought Mary Bennet’s voice splendidly to life. Chen writes with an assuredness that belies her age—she is a 2012 graduate of Princeton University where she won the Ward Prize in Creative Writing and the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize. She has interned at The New Yorker and FSG, was a poetry reader for The Paris Review, and worked at two distinguished New York literary agencies.
While the novel parallels Pride and Prejudice in the beginning, seeing familiar events through Mary’s sharp eye, it truly takes off after Lizzy and Darcy wed. Mary goes to visit her sister at Pemberley, and her encounters and experiences there will transform her forever. MARY B takes unexpected and bold turns, and we as readers come to root for and love Mary as she grows into a woman and confronts the twin tumults of romance and her artistic dreams of becoming writer.
This is a novel for anyone who has ever felt like the plain sister, the less-brilliant friend, or the wallflower in the room. MARY B is an entertaining and modern tribute to one of the most famous novels in the world, but just as importantly, author Katherine Chen has crafted a heroine to whom contemporary women everywhere can relate, while delving into the complex realities of being a young woman on the marriage market.
Katherine Chen has effortlessly mastered Austenian prose and tone, and brought Mary Bennet’s voice splendidly to life. Chen writes with an assuredness that belies her age—she is a 2012 graduate of Princeton University where she won the Ward Prize in Creative Writing and the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize. She has interned at The New Yorker and FSG, was a poetry reader for The Paris Review, and worked at two distinguished New York literary agencies.
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Published 2018-07-24 by Random House |
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Published 2018-07-24 by Random House |