'Monique Roffey leads strong showing for indies on Rathbones Folio shortlist'. 'Here's the shortlist for the Center for Fiction's 2020 First Novel Prize'. ^ a b Saka, Rasheeda (1 October 2020).'Indelicacy by Amina Cain - a strange, short, beguiling book'. ^ a b Berwick, Isabel (17 September 2020).' 'A Trace of That Darker History': An Interview with Amina Cain'. 'The Space of Writing: A Conversation with Amina Cain'. 'Eternal Present: An Interview with Amina Cain'.

^ a b Cain, Kate Durbin interviews Amina (11 February 2020).The book was shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Īccording to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received mostly 'Rave' and 'Positive' reviews. Indelicacy makes a tacit claim as a feminist fable, in which Vitória attempts to carve out room for herself without either submitting to or being complicit in exploitationbut the book’s very ease makes it slight against its much darker lineage. īerwick grouped Cain's work with that of Jenny Offill and Ottessa Moshfegh, calling their styles 'modern flat'. Isabel Berwick, writing in a review for the Financial Times, referred to the novel as ' a strange, short, beguiling book.' This sentiment was echoed in The New Yorker, which called the book 'sparse' and 'elliptical'. Ĭain had several drafts for the novel, and has referred to earlier versions of the book as 'terrible'. The city in which the novel takes place also never receives a name, and Cain has referred to it as 'a combination of Chicago, London, and then some imagined place'. The novel is partially set in an unnamed museum and for inspiration, Cain visited the National Gallery in London and the Frick Collection in New York City. The novel follows the life of its narrator, Vitória, from shortly before her marriage until shortly after its dissolution. Indelicacy is a 2020 novel by American writer Amina Cain.

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