Jane: A Murder - Maggie Nelson

In this hybrid work of true crime, memoir and poetry Maggie Nelson explores the brief life and death of her Aunt Jane, who was brutally murdered while a law student at the University of Michigan, one of the victims of the "Co-ed-Killer" who terrorized the area between 1967-1969. In what feels like a literary collage, Nelson weaves together the pieces of her Aunt's life and death from newspapers, interviews, conversations, and Jane's diary which she discovers in her mother's house. This is a truly original work, moving and surprising—and immediately resonant with anyone who has tried to come to terms with a lost relative, or understand an experience through a patchwork of fragments.