FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Cains small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic." The New York Times Book Review A haunted feminist fable, Amina Cains Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming laborsocial and eroticbut she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing, class, desire, anxiety, pleasure, friendship, and the battle to find ones true calling.
- | Author: Amina Cain
- | Publisher: Picador Paper
- | Publication Date: February 09, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 176 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1250785715
- | ISBN-13: 9781250785718
- Author:
- Amina Cain
- Publisher:
- Picador Paper
- Publication Date:
- February 09, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 176 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1250785715
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250785718