Transit: A Novel [Paperback]

National Bestseller A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award One ofTimeMagazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year

ANew York Times Book ReviewNotable Book Named a Best Book of the Year byThe Guardian,Southern Living,NOWMagazine,Commonweal,The Washington Independent Review of Books, theSan Francisco Chronicle,The Globe and Mail,BOMBMagazine, andThe National Post(Canada)

The Stunning Second Novel of a Trilogy That Began withOutline, One ofNew York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year

In the wake of her familys collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitionspersonal, moral, artistic, and practicalas 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,Transitsees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novelOutlineand 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 ones life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.