Outline By Rachel Cusk
Outline By Rachel Cusk Outline tells the story of Faye, a writer staying in a rented apartment in Athens while teaching a writing workshop. On the way she gets into a conevrsation with one of her seatmates, learning deep things about his failed marriages, and the two reconnect after landing. She goes on boat trips with him where he eventually professes attraction toward her, an attraction she does not reciprocate, thus ending, for her, their friendship. During her stay she hears stories told by her students, stories from friends in Athens, and stories from strangers. She hears all about their lives; their anxieties, fantasies, regrets, longings, and ideas. Through their stories we learn about what she thinks of the shape of her own life after a divorce of her own, now living as a single mother. We learn through these stories the great loss she has suffered and how she will define herself as a result, how she will learn to redraw herself in her new reality. She must rely on herse...