{"id":3566,"date":"2009-02-15T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2009-02-15T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T21:56:48","slug":"rose-reviews-repeat-after-me-by-rachel-dewoskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/15\/rose-reviews-repeat-after-me-by-rachel-dewoskin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Reviews: Repeat After Me by Rachel DeWoskin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rose Symotiuk<\/em><\/strong><\/a> was a JET in Akan, Hokkaido from 2003-2005.\u00a0 She works in publishing in New York City.\u00a0 You can follow her blog at http:\/\/roseinnewyork.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Repeat After Me<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is the first fiction book by Rachel DeWoskin<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 DeWoskin went to Beijing in 1994 to work as a public-relations consultant and was quickly recruited to star in a Chinese nighttime soap opera, titled Foreign Babes in Beijing, which was watched by approximately 600 million viewers. At the time, she was one of the few foreign actresses working in mainland China and was considered a sex symbol.\u00a0 You can pick up her popular book about her experiences, titled Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Repeat After Me<\/em> follows the lead character, Aysha, a young New Yorker, after a mental breakdown causes her to drop out of Columbia and start teaching at an English school.\u00a0 There she meets Da Ge, a young Chinese man with his own problems.\u00a0 The story starts somewhere in the middle and unfolds in wonderous ways: from Aysha’s parents’ divorce, to her life in Beijing years later with a stunning surprise, always returning to her tragic, vivid romance with Da Ge.<\/p>\n

Splashed across this story in bright color is China, in mouth watering dinners, to brilliant paintings, to the uprising at Tiananmen Square and contemporary Beijing.\u00a0 DeWoskin can’t help but keep New York subdued in welcome contrast.<\/p>\n

Repeat After Me<\/em> has a few problems.\u00a0 In the story, two characters discuss a book they’ve read and one comments that though the book is not bad, the writer is quite young.\u00a0 One can’t help but feel DeWoskin references herself in this discussion.\u00a0 Structurally, the book depends on a series of letters that start as blatant exposition and aimlessly meander throughout the book until they become goofy.\u00a0 The rich characters, and engaging story aren’t hampered at all by this, however, and I can wholeheartedly recommend picking up Repeat After Me<\/em> when it is released by Overlook<\/strong> this May.<\/p>\n

You can preorder the book here<\/a> from Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rose Symotiuk was a JET in Akan, Hokkaido from 2003-2005.\u00a0 She works in publishing in New York City.\u00a0 You can follow her blog at http:\/\/roseinnewyork.wordpress.com\/. Repeat After Me is the first fiction book by Rachel DeWoskin.\u00a0 DeWoskin went to Beijing in 1994 to work as a public-relations consultant and was quickly recruited to star in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,40,58,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-reviews","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-Vw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}