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Amina Cain

Born

February 17, 1972

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Amina Memory Cain is the author of the novel Indelicacy, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and staff pick at the Paris Review, published in February 2020 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and two collections of short fiction, Creature, out with Dorothy, a publishing project, and I Go To Some Hollow, with Les Figues Press. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review Daily, n+1, BOMB, Full Stop, the Believer Logger, and other places.

She has also co-curated literary events, such as When Does It or You Begin?, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video at Links Hall in Chicago, Both Sides and The Center, a summer festival of readings and performances enacting various levels of proximity, intimacy, and distance at the MAK Center/ ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 2,501 ratings · 432 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Indelicacy 3.54 avg rating — 2,042 ratings — published 2020 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creature 3.96 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Go To Some Hollow 4.55 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indelicacy Lib/E by Amina Cain, Lauren Ezzo (Reading) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunger 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary XXperimental Prose by Women Writers by Nava Renek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Masha Tupitsyn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jessica Treat (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[out of nothing] #0: Theoretical Perspectives on the Substance Preceding by Janice Lee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Lindley (Editor), Christ Sylvester (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Still in the process of becoming, the soul makes room.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

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“I wanted to sit quietly in front of the window as the cat did. I wanted to show my excitement like the dog.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

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“Yes, you're changing. But the best parts of you are still here.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

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