#always jane

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Laura Noury From ‘Always Jane’ Pens Powerful Letter to Her Daughter to Honor Her Strength

The mother-daughter duo are featured in a new docuseries

Essay from 12 Nov. 2021.

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Title: Always Jane

Author: Jenn Bennett

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary

Blurb: 18-year-old chauffeur’s daughter Jane Marlow grew up among the domestic staff of a wealthy LA rock producer, within reach of bands she idolises, but never a VIP. Every summer, Jane and her father head to the Sierras to work at the producer’s luxury lodge at Lake Condor, a resort town and the site of a major music festival. The legendary family who runs the festival are the Sarafians, and Jane’s had a longtime crush on their oldest son, Eddie, who’s doltish but sweet. When a long-distance romance finally sparks between them, she doesn’t hesitate to cross class lines...but Jane’s feelings about Eddie are thrown into question after she returns to the lake and reconnects with his alluringly intense brother, the dark horse of her placid summer plans. A fellow lover of music - and hater of the game - Fen Sarafian has been ousted from the family and is slumming it at a vinyl record shop. He burns for Jane like a house on fire, and will do anything to sabotage his older brother, even if it means taking a wrecking ball to a multi-million-dollar music festival...or Jane’s heart.

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Eddie wouldn't promise me bank robbery and cottage witchery.

⁠—Jenn Bennet, Always Jane

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‘Always Jane’ Is Part of a New Generation of Trans Documentaries

For decades, films about transgender people tended to be sensationalistic. A newer crop is more celebratory — and opening doors for its young subjects

If you notice in the article, the writer (no, not the Canadian actor from Falcon Crest and Quincy, M.E. uses the word "transgender" a lot. A LOT. The interviewees use the shorthand "trans." It's almost like if the writer kept putting down "homosexual" while quoting everyone else saying "lesbian." You know, like religious conservatives...