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. 'Amina Cain redefines strangeness and freedom in this beautiful and unusual novel that resembles fairy tales and ghost stories but feels intensely contemporary.' - Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple ChoiceĪ ghostly 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. Through this timeless examination of solitude, art, and friendship, Amina Cain announces herself as one of the most intriguing writers of our time.' - Patty Yumi Cottrell, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace 'Acutely observed, Indelicacy is an exquisite jewel box of a novel with the passion and vitality found only in such rare and necessary works as The Hour of the Star and The Days of Abandonment. I loved reading this book.' - Danielle Dutton, author of Margaret the First Amina Cain is one of my favorite writers. In a deeply pleasing way, reading this novel is a bit like standing in a painting, a masterful study of light and dark, inside and out, freedom and desire. She looks at a landscape then moves inside another, and as we read it begins to seem that the landscapes in paintings and in fiction are eerily the same. 'In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking inside the landscapes where she lives. location.Īmina Cain discusses her new novel, Indelicacy, with Rita Bullwinkel.

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