A review by chillcox15
Indelicacy by Amina Cain

4.0

Amina Cain is so alienated and defamiliarized in its telling of a woman suddenly thrust into the upper echelons of society through marriage that it risks reducing itself to the level of simplicity its narrative toys with, but I think it weathers that risk and comes out the other side as an extremely compelling novella about both the exchanges and compromises that women must make to navigate the world, and a reflexive analysis of narratives about those exchanges and compromises as well.