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FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE"Cain’s small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story & 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 & class roles to empower herself & fulfill her dreams. In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson & 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, & so must find a way to win herself the time & security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, & 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 labour—social & erotic—but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another & 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 But

Who reads Indelicacy: A Novel?

Author

Cain, Amina

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Macmillan

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374718732

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.6 / 5 (240 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14