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Amina Cain


Born
February 17, 1972

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


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: 3.68 · 9,501 ratings · 1,693 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
Indelicacy
3.58 avg rating — 7,142 ratings — published 2020 — 20 editions
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A Horse at Night: On Writing
4.01 avg rating — 1,639 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions
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Creature
3.89 avg rating — 574 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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I Go To Some Hollow
4.52 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Brief Chronicle, Books 6–8
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[out of nothing] #0: Theore...
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Hunger
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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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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