{"product_id":"indelicacy","title":"Indelicacy","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIndelicacy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAmina Cain\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781250785718\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador Paper\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCain's small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA haunted feminist fable, Amina Cain's \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eher\u003c\/i\u003e. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReminiscent 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 \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador Paper","offers":[{"title":"Indelicacy | Amina Cain | Book | 9781250785718 | New | Fiction 1405516","offer_id":50560746029314,"sku":"1405516","price":29.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51FryVO4SfL.jpg?v=1790698100","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/indelicacy","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}