{"product_id":"indelicacy-a-novel-9780374148379","title":"Indelicacy: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndelicacy: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Cain, Amina. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374148379.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTIONS FIRST NOVEL PRIZE\n\n\"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\n\nA 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.\n\nIn \"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?\n\nReminiscent 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 Cains 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598628192309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374148376","price":59.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374148379_206ffea2-b4d5-4402-8dd2-7054944045cd.jpg?v=1792701753","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/indelicacy-a-novel-9780374148379","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}