Perhaps, newly attuned to her own insatiable desire to create, she would reach her own form of understanding from the drafts that she would copy out eleven times by hand.

Cain embraces a promiscuity of references including Chantal Akerman, Elena Ferrante, and Clarice Lispector, elucidating how “things combine to become other things, other kinds of experiences” when brought into conversation with one another.