The Red Parts av Maggie Nelson

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<p><b>Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the <i>Guardian</i></b><br><b><br>''Maggie Nelson¿s short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vast, their cleverness and odd beauty lingering on'' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break. She never made it: she was brutally murdered, her body found a few miles from campus the following day.<br><br><i>The Red Parts</i> is Maggie Nelson¿s singular account of her aunt Jane¿s death, and the trial that took place some 35 years afterward. Officially unsolved for decades, the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect, who would soon be arrested and tried. In 2005, Nelson found herself attending the trial, and reflecting with fresh urgency on our relentless obsession with violence, particula