The Red Parts (2007)
The Red Parts: A Memoir, republished as The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, is a 2007 memoir by American author Maggie Nelson. Originally published in March 2007 by Free Press, the memoir was re-issued on April 5, 2016, by Graywolf Press. The memoir follows Nelson and her family following the 2004 re-opening of her aunt Jane's 1969 murder and the trial to convict the suspected killer Gary Leiterman. Nelson wrote the book in the style of prose poems and it confronts themes of grief, true crime and male violence against women. The book received generally positive reviews.
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 224
