Rachel Cusk, Transit and Kudos

One of my favourite discoveries of 2022. I loved reading about Faye's encounters and her conversations with friends and strangers alike. It reminds me a bit of Salinger's "Nine Stories" in the best way, enough love and squalor to please Esmé. Especially Transit was so full of great stories; Cusk really is able to capture that uncomfortable, liminal space in between two situations, to describe what it means to go through upheaval, not knowing how something will turn out. To know something old - a relationship, a flat, a homecountry - was not the right fit, but not knowing at all whether what will come will be any better.