{"product_id":"indelicacy-amina-cain","title":"Indelicacy - Amina Cain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndelicacy by Amina Cain \/ 176-page paperback published by Picador \/ ISBN 9781250785718\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cain’s small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic.\" ―The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA haunted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 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 one’s true calling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48213002387681,"sku":"9781250785718","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/5215\/0960\/files\/Indelicacy-Amina-Cain.jpg?v=1776906162","url":"https:\/\/50wattsbooks.com\/en-ca\/products\/indelicacy-amina-cain","provider":"50 Watts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}