Raised in Tennessee by her poor but genteel great grandmother, Jasmine Johnson is orphaned at eleven and moves in with heroh-so-modern cousins in California. Based on Jane Austen'sMansfi eld Park, Arden Park takes a 19th-century child and setsher down in a 21st-century world of wealth, opulence, and selfindulgence.A cautionary tale replete with scheming, romance, values, and the lack of them, Arden Park pits Jasmine againsta crowd of fashionable, pampered teenagers, as she takes onschool, career, and love.