{"product_id":"indelicacy-9781250785718","title":"Indelicacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmina Cain\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a novel, \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short story collections \u003ci\u003eCreature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Go To Some Hollow\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBeliever Logger\u003c\/i\u003e, and other places. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619794587922,"sku":"9781250785718","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7ded89e-5658-4293-bd3b-d4ccac4f9e4a.jpg?v=1732555530","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/indelicacy-9781250785718","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}