National Bestseller • A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize • Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award • One of
Time
Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year
A
New York Times Book Review
Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by
The Guardian
,
Southern Living
NOW
Magazine,
Commonweal
The Washington Independent Review of Books
, the
San Francisco Chronicle
The Globe and Mail
BOMB
Magazine, and
The National Post
(Canada)
The Stunning Second Novel of a Trilogy That Began with
Outline
, One of
’s 10 Best Books of the Year
In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, and practical—as 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
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 and 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 one’s life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.