Confucius Jane: A Novel

Confucius Jane by Katie Lynch is a lush and charming novel that vividly depicts New York City's Chinatown while taking the reader on a touching journey of family, community, and love. On leave from college, Jane Morrow has a new job, helping out in her uncleÆs fortune cookie factory, and a new roommateùher precocious 11-year-old cousin. Though surrounded by her loving family and their close-knit Chinatown community, Jane feels like a colossal failure. Writing fortunes is a kind of poetry, but Jane is penning words of wisdom for strangers while wondering if she will ever have the guts to move on with her life. When Jane meets medical student Sutton St. James at her local noodle shop, sparks fly. Sutton stands at a career crossroads: surgical residency or stem cell research overseas? The first is what her father, former Surgeon General and ôAmerica's doctor,ö has planned for her, but the latter might help find a cure for her motherÆs debilitating MS. Neither would make either of them comfortable with their daughter's sexuality. SuttonÆs only certainty is that she has no time for a relationshipùyet neither she nor Jane can deny the chemistry between them. Jane opens a whole new view of family to Sutton, a powerful counter to SuttonÆs cold, sterile upbringing. Sutton inspires Jane to be more ambitious and to dream againùand challenges her to have faith in herself. But can Sutton and Jane overcome a scandalous secret that threatens to keep them apart?

• | Author: Katie Lynch
• | Publisher: Forge Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0765383799
• | ISBN-13: 9780765383792