![]() ![]() The novel is a beautifully composed and observed work centered on the complexity of inner life as it clashes with the demands made on it from the outside, whether it be friends, family, community, or commerce. Vitória’s narration is quiet, pensive, and engrossing, whether she is describing beloved works of art or her own prejudices. Cain has described the novel’s narrator, Vitória, as a flâ neuse, wandering absorbed through her city and through her life, as a cleaning woman at the museum through marriage to a wealthy man. The author of the short story collections Creature(Dorothy, 2013) and I Go to Some Hollow (Les Figues, 2009, now out of print), her first novel, Indelicacy, is newly released from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Amina Cain writes by sight and habitation. ![]()
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