Indelicacy by Amina Cain is published by Daunt (£9.99). ‘With simplicity and wisdom, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy strips away the clutter of the modern novel, leaving only her narrator’s concentrated attention and yearning. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Far from being conflicted about following her own “process of becoming”, she is coolly unapologetic. 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.

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.