Transit: A Novel (Outline Trilogy 2)

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National Bestseller A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award One of Time Magazines Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by Time The Guardian BOMB Magazine San Francisco Chronicle Commonweal Southern Living NOW Magazine The Washington Independent Review of Books Book Depository The Globe and Mail and The National Post (Canada) 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 her familys collapse a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitionspersonal moral artistic and practicalas she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living that 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 novel 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 second book of a precise short yet epic cycle Cusk describes the most elemental experiences the liminal qualities of life. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee ones life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.