{"id":4192,"date":"2016-10-08T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2016-10-03T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:07:30","slug":"wide-sargasso-sea-by-jean-rhys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4250\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1040693\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4250\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Wide-Sargasso-Sea-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"wide-sargasso-sea\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Wide-Sargasso-Sea-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Wide-Sargasso-Sea.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My summer pick for a classic I&#8217;ve never read was <em>Wide Sargasso Sea<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised I hadn&#8217;t read it, as it&#8217;s the story of the woman that marries Mr. Rochester, yes, that Rochester from <em>Jane Eyre<\/em>. \u00a0The book tells the story of Antoinette, born in Jamaica to ex-slave owners. \u00a0Eventually her father drinks himself to death and her mother exhibits signs of insanity. \u00a0Antoinette is cared for by the nuns at her convent school and occasionally by her Aunt Cora. \u00a0Mr. Rochester, while never directly named in the book, arrives on the island and marries Antoinette without really knowing much about her past.\u00a0 This book was a richly detailed story full of secrets and superstitions as well as deep-seated resentments, especially of the ex-slaves toward the white aristocracy.\u00a0 So glad I picked this to read this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My summer pick for a classic I&#8217;ve never read was Wide Sargasso Sea.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised I hadn&#8217;t read it, as it&#8217;s the story of the woman that marries Mr. Rochester, yes, that Rochester from Jane Eyre. \u00a0The book tells the story of Antoinette, born in Jamaica to ex-slave owners. \u00a0Eventually her father drinks himself to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}