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• W2913446778 abstract "Reviewed by: Miss Jane by Brad Watson Robert Morgan Fisher (bio) Brad Watson. Miss Jane. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Like his first novel, The Heaven of Mercury—a 2002 National Book Award Finalist—Brad Watson's second novel is also set in and around Mercury, Mississippi. Yet, while Watson often comes back to his childhood home in his material, he's not chained to it. He's a writer who digs deep and relishes the unfamiliar. His great-aunt provided the inspiration for Miss Jane, but Watson only met her once, briefly, at a family reunion. The rest he filled in with vague family memories, medical research and his ample imagination. Born in 1915 with a urological abnormality, Persistent cloaca, Jane Chisholm has only one hole down there through which all waste exits her body. She is incontinent—no control whatsoever—and there's only so much a diaper or napkin can do. She has sex organs, but they're sealed up inside. This is a story of physiological repression and inaccessibility; Jane's isolation and separateness are compounded by her life as a Mississippi sharecropper's daughter. That she's pretty, healthy, basically normal in every other way, somehow heightens the cruelty of it all. Watson hooks us early with the first chapter. A laundry list of all her fears that reads like a eulogy. It's one of the best first chapters of a novel I've ever seen. She didn't fear the coyotes that sang at nightin the open fields, nor the panthersthat sometimes screamed far off deep in thewoods. She loved to kneel at the openwindow and listen to the coyotes sing andimagine what they were singing to eachother, what their singing meant to them.She did not mind them tearing mice,rabbits and squirrels to pieces, nor runningdown newborn fawns. The landscape is immediately familiar. Watson frontloads the narrative with unmistakable clues that we're standing squarely in southern gothic territory, deftly painting a portrait of our heroine in four pages. In the second chapter, he introduces us to Dr. Eldred Thompson who delivers and then advocates/cares for Jane for the rest of his life. The bulk of Miss Jane is told through this country doctor's eyes in addition to Jane's. The doctor and Jane are bound together in profound ways by loneliness and loyalty. One can't help but root for Jane: her father and mother are unhappily married; older sister Grace becomes sexualized at an early age and flaunts it Jane's face. Grace performs sex acts in the woods, having hidden Jane in the bushes as an unwitting audience. No doubt Grace intends to educate little sister—but it only serves as a bitter reminder of what Jane will never experience for herself. The father's drinking and entitled status as the town's leading moonshiner creates problems for Jane, especially as she grows older. The family is emotionally and intellectually ill-equipped to deal with Jane's challenges so it's up to Dr. Thompson to explain how life works—especially the parts Jane will never experience for herself. Dr. Thompson continually hopes to fix Jane's problem. The letters he writes to specialists [End Page 247] up north and back east are refreshingly eloquent. But the clock is ticking; though surgical/medical breakthroughs are inevitable, they remain just out of reach and too late for Jane to have a normal life in terms of sex or childbearing. Thompson writes: It was impossible to tell just what went through the parents' minds as I was telling them what I told the girl. Essentially. Seriously if I were a card player I would want Chisholm's deadpan visage. Not as if he doesn't wear his hardships in that expression that is somehow not hard but enduring. Like the surface of some hard-traveled rutted clay road. As if made for that. The wife shows more, albeit not without some amount of the inscrutable. Not as if the whole thing isn't some thing these folks hardly ever talk about. Not comfortably, anyway. Country folks being the kind who kindly..." @default.
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