Brian's book (I think)!From Amazon: "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" for a woman in that time and place: sex and
marriage. From the highly erotic world of nature around her to the
hard tactile labor of farm life, from the country doctor who befriends
her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, Miss Jane
Chisolm and her world are anything but barren.
The potency and implacable cruelty of nature, as well as its beauty,
is a trademark of Watson’s fiction. In Miss Jane, the author brings
to life a hard, unromantic past that is tinged with the sadness of
unattainable loves, yet shot through with a transcendent beauty. Jane
Chisolm’s irrepressible vitality and generous spirit give her the
strength to live her life as she pleases in spite of the limitations
that others, and her own body, would place on her. Free to satisfy
only herself, she mesmerizes those around her, exerting an unearthly
fascination that lives beyond her still."
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