Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? 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. 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. 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. 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. " Cain’s small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic." - The New York Times Book ReviewĪ 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. FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
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