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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
fast-paced
wow. i dont even know what to say, cant put the words together. a book i want to recommend to everyone but its an odd book to recommend. but just trust me trust me trust me. wow. one of the best things i’ve read in a while
I'm more enamored with the hybridity of this book than anything else. Maggie Nelson uses poetry, news clips, police documents, and her murdered aunt's own journal entries to turn this story into more than what otherwise may have been a simple true crime book. The result is a book that speaks on so many levels - it's an account of her aunt's murder and Nelson's investigation into it, but it pulls in so much else about girlhood and family and the way society perceives crimes against women. Really, there's so much packed into such a little book, whether you like poetry, sociology, or murder mysteries.
This book gave me the uniquely rewarding impression of reading a work that surely changed its author's life, while simultaneously changing my own. Amazing.
The Why of this is obvious. The How is what fascinated me. Maggie Nelson always gets me thinking about form and Jane: A Murder was no exception.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced