Miss Jane

by Brad Watson

Book Overview

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.

Now, drawing on the story of his own great-aunt, Watson explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central "uses"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393241734
• ISBN13: 9780393241730
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.4"