Indelicacy by Cain, Amina

Indelicacy

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Cain's small but mighty novel reads like a...
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Author: Amina Cain
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Language: English
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Indelicacy by Cain, Amina

Indelicacy

€15,39

Indelicacy

€15,39
Author: Amina Cain
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

Cain's 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 Cain's 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 labor--social and erotic--but 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 one's true calling.

Author: Amina Cain
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780374148379


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 35
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2019
Shelf Awareness 03/24/2020

About the Author
Amina Cain is the author of a novel, Indelicacy, and the short story collections Creature and I Go To Some Hollow. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, Granta, n+1, the Believer Logger, and other places. She lives in Los Angeles.


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