"A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles-cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical-that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires"– <\/p>\n
FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE<\/b> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/i><\/b> Cain’s small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic.<\/b> —The New York Times Book Review<\/i><\/b> <\/p>\n
A haunted feminist fable, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy<\/i> is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams.<\/b> <\/p>\n
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<\/i>. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? <\/p>\n
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<\/i> 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. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Author: Amina Cain \u2022 ISBN:9781250785718 \u2022 Format:Paperback \u2022 Publication Date:2021-02-09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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