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Astonishing prose brings alive a forgotten girl and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral. Since his award-winning debut assortment of stories, Previous Days and nights of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been widening the literary traditions of the South, in are melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Now, attracting on the storyplot of his own great-aunt, Watson explores the life span of Neglect Jane Chisolm, created in rural, early on-20th-century Mississippi with a genital labor and birth defect that would stand in the form of the central "uses" for a woman in that time and place: intimacy and marriage. From the highly erotic world of characteristics around her to the hard tactile labor of plantation life, from the country doctor who befriends her to the young man who enjoyed but was compelled to leave her, Neglect Jane Chisolm and her world are not barren. The potency and implacable cruelty of characteristics, as well as its beauty, is a trademark of Watson's fiction. In Neglect Jane, the author brings alive a difficult, unromantic recent that is tinged with the sadness of unattainable loves, yet shot through with a transcendent beauty. Jane Chisolm's irrepressible vitality and good soul give her the strength to have her life as she pleases in spite of the limits that others, and her own body, would put on her. Free to gratify only herself, she mesmerizes those around her, exerting an unearthly fascination that lives beyond her still.
