Born in early-twentieth-century rural Mississippi with a genital birth defect, Jane Chisolm realizes early in life she's not like other kids. But as she grows up on a farm during the Great Depression, she comes to realize that, despite the hardships it causes, her abnormality allows her to choose her own path in life, free from the prescribed roles for women of the time. Based on the real life of the author's great-aunt, Miss Jane is a beautiful, heart-wrenching, and ultimately heartening novel about a remarkable woman.