Transit by Rachel Cusk (Paperback)

Transit by Rachel Cusk (Paperback)In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions personal, moral, artistic, and practical as she endeavours 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

its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection

to an acute awareness of the restless nature of language itself

bearing witness to nature's power to amaze

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