Indelicacy by Amina Cain

A museum cleaning woman who longs to write studies paintings and the lives around her, marries a wealthy man to escape poverty, and then confronts the constraints of privilege and domesticity. Through friendships, dance lessons, and solitary walks, she pursues a life of art and self-determination, weighing the costs of freedom and testing the limits of desire, class, and care as she learns to claim a space—and a voice—of her own.

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