rachelhenrie 's review for:

Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson

3.75

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"Emily retained her ghosts for years. After our father died it became more acute - even as a teenager she dragged around stuffed animals, T-shirts, pillowcases, anything that smelled like the people she loved. Any object could become host to the scent of the dead or the invisible.

I also saved a few things. The most precious was a gray cable-knit sweater of my father's that I kept balled up in a drawer next to my bed, having decided that it carried the most potent scent. One day my mother found it and washed it, saying that it was filthy, that it wouldn't smell like him forever. But she was wrong. It would have."

(Nelson, 2005, 175)