Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Cusk, Rachel. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374102135.

In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Lifes Work, a provocative and often startlingly funny memoir about the cataclysm of motherhood. Widely acclaimed, the book started hundreds of arguments that continue to this day. Now, in her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorces tremendous impact on the lives of women. An unflinching chronicle of Cusks own recent separation and the upheaval that followed―"a jigsaw dismantled"―it is also a vivid study of divorces complex place in our society. "Aftermath" originally signified a second harvest, and in this book, unlike any other written on the subject, Cusk discovers opportunity as well as pain. With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Rachel Cusk maps a transformative chapter of her life with an acuity and wit that will help us understand our own.