Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson”s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane”s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane”s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche.
Jane explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The
Michigan Murders and
Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane”s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21. Its eight sections cover Jane”s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson”s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane”s sister) to retrace the path of Jane”s final hours.
Jane explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The
Michigan Murders and
Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane”s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21. Its eight sections cover Jane”s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson”s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane”s sister) to retrace the path of Jane”s final hours.
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Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9781786995711 ● Publisher Zed Books ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7192254 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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