True crime meets memoir meets poetry. I adored Nelson’s use of her aunt’s diary entries and the way she communicated the heinousness of Jane’s murder by presenting her as a person, not a faceless victim defined by her death.

Beautifully constructed & very sad. Liked it a lot more than argonauts

Like everything I have enjoyed by maggie, I think I need to reread. The blending of memoir, her aunt's diary entries, and poetry made a compassionate and artful collage of her murdered aunt's life.

I was absolutely blown away by this book. Maggie Nelson's investigation of her dead aunt's life and subsequent murder is lyrical, thoroughly emotional, and absolutely terrifying. Jane: a murder is unlike anything I've ever read, and is at turns equally tender and brusque in its meditations and violence.