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Remember the 1996 film Jerry Maguire and its famous line, “You had me at hello?” Well, our guest this week, Marian Yee, had me at hello with her novel 4 Janes, which is a genre- and time-bending re-imagining of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. It is a novel that you’ll want to read a second time (or even a third) and discuss with others because there are so many layers.
And our book rec segment features female authors in translation. August was Women in Translation month and yes we missed it by a few days, but we still have some great suggestions to last you all year long. We’ve got historical fiction set in a brothel in early 20th century Japan, a fantasy filled with Norse mythology, a psychological thriller set in Iceland, a family saga set in early 20th century Mexico filled with magical realism, the story of an old woman and her neighbors living outside Chernobyl, and the plight of young women in a mental asylum in Paris.
Books Mentioned in This Episode:
1- 4 Janes: A Novel by Marian Yee
2- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
3- The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin
4- Love and Other Monsters by Emily Franklin
5- Thirteen Perfect Fugitives: The True Story of the Mob, Murder, and the World's Largest Art Heist by Geoffrey Kelly
6- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
7- The Whisper Man by Alex North
8- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
9- War and Peace: The Graphic Novel by Leo Tolstoy, Alexandr Poltorak, and Dmitry Chukhrai
10- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
11- Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennie Capo Crucet
12- Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës by Devoney Looser
13- Snap by Susin Nielsen
14- 5 Star Read by Fellow Book Lover Brenna Julian - Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
15- The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia, translated from Spanish by Simon Bruni
16- The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mad, translated from French by Frank Wynne
17- Baba Dunja's Last Love by Alina Bronsky, translated from German by Tim Mohr
18- A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata, translated from Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
19- The Night Guest by Hilda Knutsdottir, translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
20- Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen, translated from Norwegian by Siân Mackie and Paul Russell
Media Mentioned:
1- The Last Seen Podcast - https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/lastseen/last-seen-season-one
2- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Netflix, 2024 - present)
3- The Whisper Man (Netflix, 2026)
4- The Mad Women's Ball (Amazon Prime, 2021)
