I confess I’m not sure the novel takes place in the present day, but I could be persuaded that it does-perhaps in a parallel dimension. I’m intrigued by how Indelicacy began for you, places like Arizona and Brazil are mentioned in the book. Because I don’t like to leave things to chance. I typed up some questions and I thought I would read them. I am a huge fan of your work and this book, obviously.
Patty Yumi Cottrell: I’m so thrilled to be here with you. In this interview, recorded at McNally Jackson Williamsburg, Amina Cain and Patty Yumi Cottrell ( Sorry to Disrupt the Peace) discuss the pre-writing, writing a world you want to be in, and Indelicacy. It is a novel about seeing, class, desire, anxiety, pleasure, friendship, and the battle to find one’s true calling. Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain’s Indelicacyis at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature.
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