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Jane

Maggie Nelson

4.33 AVERAGE

corinneleo's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

kyleighrain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

notlikethebeer's review against another edition

5.0

I really loved the concept behind this book – or, more appropriately perhaps, the concepts plural. The idea of using poetry to explore a murder, and a trial, was really interesting, as was the use of Jane’s diaries. It gave a voice to the victim, something that can often be overlooked when the victim is no longer around to provide that voice in-the-moment. At the same time, the use of diary-writing is not without its controversies. Jane was deprived of dignity in death, and that makes it all the more important to provide her with it in life. Rightly or wrongly, I do trust Maggie Nelson to have considered this, and to have reached a decision that she felt was in Jane’s best interests. As well as ‘the story of a murder’, this was also the story of Maggie Nelson, and the things that grip us, sewn into our backgrounds that we cannot put down: even when they are awful, when there is as much argument to not know as to know, when there are moral arguments for hiding these things from the light. I own but have not read The Red Parts yet, but I’m really looking forwards to that.