![]() ![]() Cleaning toilets with her friend and fellow maid Antoinette, among Caravaggios and Goyas, she writes about the images that populate her daily life, until she begins to “feel that I could see my writing-not the words or the paintings-somehow in between. It is in some sense about the escapes available to women in a classist, misogynist universe of few opportunities. ![]() Her novel, laid out in sections that rarely move beyond a few pages, maintains a fractious semblance of narrative movement throughout. It’s appropriate that Amina Cain initially situates Vitória, the protagonist of her haltingly beautiful new collection of prosodies, as a cleaning lady in a museum. ![]()
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