About this book
Longlisted for the National Book Award and a
Washington Post Best Book of the Year
"Gorgeous…A writer of profound emotional depths." —
New York Times Book Review
Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Drawing on the true story of his great-aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that excludes her from the roles traditional for a woman of her time and place and frees her to live her life as she pleases. With irrepressible vitality and generosity of spirit, Miss Jane mesmerizes those around her, exerting an unearthly fascination that lives beyond her still.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Purgatories
- Weanings
- Light of the Gathering Day
- Grace in the Wilderness
- Sensual Matters
- Mortality
- Death Insurance
- The Infernal Voices of Reason
- Essentially Normal
- Do You Like What You See, Who You Are?
- Some Other Ghost
- The Boy with the Camera
- After Her Kind
- Suitors
- On Love
- Oblivion
- Copper Pennies
- Worm
- Otherworldly Birds
- Acknowledgments
- Praise for Miss Jane
- Also by Brad Watson
- Reading Group Guide
- Copyright
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