{"product_id":"indelicacy","title":"Indelicacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sublime tale of art, power and privilege from a rising star in American literary fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA ghostly feminist fable, Amina Cain's\u003ci\u003e Indelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Amina Cain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516741222461,"sku":null,"price":21.84,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781922268518.jpg?v=1787571057","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/indelicacy","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}