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Amina Cain

Biography

Amina Cain

Amina Cain is the author of the short fiction collections CREATURE and I GO TO SOME HOLLOW. Her essays and short stories have appeared in n+1, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, Full Stop, Vice, the Believer Logger and other places. She lives in Los Angeles and is a contributing editor at BOMB.

Amina Cain

Books by Amina Cain

by Amina Cain - Fiction, Women's Fiction

In INDELICACY, 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?