![]() ![]() Feeling possessive, Shapland dismissed those she saw as her rivals, otherwise known as McCullers’s biographers. Objects, she found, offered her a McCullers that she could touch, even smell. Asked what she wanted to do for her second-year project at the library, she chose the personal effects collections, where she catalogued McCullers’s extraordinary clothes: her embroidered vests, the nightgowns she liked to wear under a coat, a gold lamé jacket with a magenta lining that still had a Saks tag on it. Within a year, she had begun “calling myself a lesbian for the first time”. ![]() Within a week, she had cut her hair short. ![]() But now she was captivated – and something shifted inside her. “Books seem to find me when I’m ready for them,” she writes, a statement that forewarns the reader, early on, of the Jenn-centred universe of her book. Shapland had not read McCullers’s novels. ![]()
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