

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. 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. The New York Times Book ReviewĪ 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.

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZEĬain's small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic.
