![]() ![]() “I have struggled with my own profound conventionality by making a sort of attack on myself in autobiography. “My own shedding of the notion of original character has had to occur through a process of adhering to and then escaping from conventions of form,” Cusk, who lives in London, says by email. In Transit, after a divorce, the narrator, Faye (whose name, as with so many traditional fiction markers, is largely absent in Cusk’s treatment of her), has moved to London with her two sons, though the shabby state of the council flat she bought necessitates repairs that send the boys to live with their neglectful father for a time. Transit, her latest novel, is the middle novel of a trilogy that began with 2015’s Outline. ![]() And so it is with the newest work of fiction by Rachel Cusk. ![]() In the beginning is the word-not a person, self, or character. ![]()
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