num_pages: 260
description: The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline one of The New York Times Book Reviews ten best books of 2015.In the wake of family collapse a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitionspersonal moral artistic practicalas she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has until now avoided and to consider questions of vulnerability and power death and renewal in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to and believe in life.Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed Outline and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate the value of suffering the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change. In this precise short and yet epic cycle of novels Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences the liminal qualities of life through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.
language: English
title: Transit
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux