Here, Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. This contemporary adult novel reimagines a Bennet family for the 21st century.
Replacing the Regency with rural Pennsylvania, and upper-class English culture with that of the Amish, the author covers the same issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage within the Amish community as Austen discussed in her work. This series reimagines Austen’s works in a contemporary Amish setting, which works charmingly. And he just can’t get this beautiful, outspoken woman out of his mind. But Khalid is also wrestling with what he believes and what he wants. When she meets the handsome Khalid, she surprises herself by being attracted to someone so judgmental. When a surprise engagement is announced between her flighty sister and Khalid, Ayesha is torn between how she feels about the straightforward Khalid and his family and the truth she realizes about herself. Pride and Prejudice ReTELLINGS For Adults Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (June, 2018)Īyesha Shamsi lives with her boisterous Muslim family and, though lonely, she doesn’t want an arranged marriage. Here are some of our favorite recent-ish works that bring the tale of Lizzy, Darcy, and the others into a wide variety of different settings. Pride and Prejudice retellings and reimaginings like Bridget Jones’s Diary, Longbourn, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies have shown that the strength of Austen’s original story can support any number of new settings and genres. The essence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been the cornerstone of countless romcoms and romance novels: opposites repel and attract until a crisis shows their true colors and they admit their feelings.
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