Book 2020
Indelicacy
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- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Fiction, psychological
- Fiction, women
- American literature
- New York Times reviewed
- Women
- Fiction
- Women cleaning personnel
- Museums
"In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), 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?"--Publisher.