![]() ![]() ![]() Despite her good fortune, Vitória is unhappy. Her new life is complete with a large house, a personal study, and a maid, who serves as a constant reminder of her own upward social mobility. Soon she is plucked from her life by a rich husband and placed into another. In the moments between scrubbing toilets and floors, she writes descriptions of paintings and notices the world around her. The protagonist, Vitória, a young and bright museum cleaning woman, spends her days dreaming about writing. In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf wrote that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”-and that sentiment echoes through Cain’s ( Creature, 2013, etc.) debut novel. ![]() An aspiring writer finds a way to live the life she’s always wanted. ![]()
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