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Laddar... The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial (2007)av Maggie Nelson
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Disappointed is too strong - just not what I was expecting. "Maggie Nelson’s aunt was murdered in Michigan in 1969. Thirty-five years later, just as Nelson had completed writing a poetry collection about her, the case was reopened when new DNA evidence emerged." She and her mom attend the trial, and she muses about autopsy photos, childhood memories, relationship troubles, death, identity. Whe was young when her father died suddenly, after her mom left him, and her sister went through a long period of rebellion. I enjoyed it but I think I expected it to be more about the crime and the criminal, like most true crime books. It's fitting that instead it's about the victim and the marks her death left on those who loved her. I feel sorry that this wasn't a hard read for me, though it made me sad. I feel a bit bad about my avid reading of true crime books, and my curiosity about the killer's thoughts and motives, instead of about the victim. But victims are the passive one in that partnership, aren't they, even though they have rich lives of their own. We can try to focus on them - news articles describing the victims of some killer so we can see they were people - but we wouldn't even know about them but for the murderer. Maggie Nelson's Aunt Jane was murdered in 1969, 4 years before Nelson was born. She grew up knowing about the murder, and as an adult wrote a book about it, "Jane." Over the years it was presumed that Jane was murdered by a serial killer who was convicted for murdering other women. Then, in 2004 just "Jane" was about to be published, new DNA evidence identified Jane's actual murderer. Over the next months, Nelson attended the trial with her mother. Despite its subtitle, this is not a true crime book, nor is it really an account of a murder trial, which is what I was expecting. Instead, it was more about Nelson's life, loves, and thoughts, which I really wasn't interested in. The New York Times asked, "{D}oes she want Jane's life to matter...or her own?" Exactly. 2 stars inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969. Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reopened; a new suspect would be arrested and tried on the basis of a DNA match. Over the months that followed, Nelson found herself attending the trial with her mother and reflecting anew on the aura of dread and fear that hung over her family and childhood--an aura that derived not only from the terrible facts of her aunt's murder, but also from her own complicated journey through sisterhood, daughterhood, and girlhood. The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Maggie Nelson's aunt was believed to be one of Collins victims (she is not included in the count above). The case could not be made and Jane’s (Maggie’s aunt) case was put aside as a cold case file.
In 2005 Nelson was in the last steps of publishing a memoir/poetry book entitled Jane: A Murder. At this exact moment in time, The Michigan State Police contacted her and told her they had been re-working the case for years and they believed they finally had Jane’s murderer.
The Red Parts delves into not only Jane’s life, but Maggie’s own childhood. She examines her own childhood grief, her Mother’s grief and how it all melts together. Maggie and her mother attended the trial, 30 some years after the fact, and so we do see the case the State Police had made. However, this book is more about how this 30 year old murder shaped Maggie’s life.
“I know what I want is impossible. If I can make my language flat enough, exact enough, if i can rinse each sentence clean enough, like washing a stone over and over again in river water, if I can find the the right perch or crevice from which to record everything, if i can give myself enough white space, maybe I could do it. I could tell you this story while walking out of this story. I could-it all could-just disappear”
It is a mesmerizing read that I found myself reading late into the night.
Highly recommended. ( )