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Transit By Rachel Cusk

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  Transit By Rachel Cusk Transit is the second novel in the Outline trilogy. We are following Faye as she buys and begins to renovate a flat in London where her neighbors hate her and her sons have to be sent to their father's while the work is being done. Faye works to crate a new life, a new existence, for herself and her children. Along the way she goes through a series of transitions in all aspects of her life and psyche. As in Outline , Transit shows us these transitions through the stories Faye encounters from others in her life. Through those stories we see how she is working out the kind of person she is or wants to be, and the kind of life she wants to make for herself. Faye grapples with things she has been avoiding and, in doing so, starts to reconstruct her belief in life. This was just as good as Outline. The writing continues to be brilliant. It is very internal for all of the characters who are extremely vulnerable in their storytelling. It is more honest, raw pro...