Miss Jane: A Novel - Brad Watson

Miss Jane: A Novel

By Brad Watson

  • Release Date: 2016-07-12
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
4 Score: 4 (From 70 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

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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Latest Impressions

  • Miss Jane

    5
    By Imagranny
    Beautifully written. I feel as close to these characters as if they were beloved family. Jane's life and how she dealt with her condition is told with a straightforwardness that brings out its innocent truth in an almost poetic way. Reminds me of old stories of my grandmother's time, when she would finish them with, "That's just the way it was back then."