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Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral.

Inspired by the true 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—namely, sex and marriage.

From the country doctor who adopts Jane to the hard tactile labor of farm life, from the highly erotic world of nature around her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, the world of Miss Jane Chisolm is anything but barren. Free to satisfy only herself, she mesmerizes those around her, exerting an unearthly fascination that lives beyond her still.

• Brad Watson
• Published 1970 January 1st by W.W. Norton & Company (first published 2016 November 3rd)
• ISBN: 0393241734
• ISBN13: 9780393241730
• 284 Pages
• 3.95 6018 ratings
• 953 reviews