{"product_id":"indelicacy-1250785715","title":"Indelicacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1250785715\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cain, Amina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE\"Cains small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic.\" -The New York Times Book ReviewA haunted feminist fable, Amina Cains Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams.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. 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 her. Perhaps another and 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 Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy 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 ones true calling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52207725183264,"sku":"NEW1250785715","price":13.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81SJm7f7jfL.jpg?v=1787125048","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/indelicacy-1250785715","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}