Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Indelicacy by Amina Cain is published by Daunt (£9.99). Indelicacy A Novel By: Amina Cain Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo Length: 3 hrs 3.3 (26 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Far from being conflicted about following her own “process of becoming”, she is coolly unapologetic. All strain against the constraints placed on their lives.īut although Vitória is bound by the tiresome duties of home and marriage, she refuses to be trapped by them: she dominates her husband in the bedroom, pursues intimacy with women, and is able to prioritise her writing.

Contemporary colloquialisms creep in – “life went normally, I guess” – and Vitória deploys wicked put-downs to irritating men who interrupt her: “Your face looks like the butt of a wolf and it’s interfering with my concentration.”Ĭharacters’ names have been borrowed from other works: those of Antoinette and Dana, two treasured friends, recall women in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Octavia Butler’s Kindred, while a truculent servant, Solange, is from Jean Genet’s The Maids. There’s also an intriguing playfulness, initially obscured by all that poise, that seems to resist the reader’s expectations of historical realism. Indelicacy Amina Cain Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Date FebruFiction Literary A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstaclescultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysicalthat stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires.