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Outline by rachel cusk5/20/2023 ![]() They reveal marriages splintered when shared assumptions diverge parents wearied by their children’s demands but ambivalent when they cease the struggle to give up comforting illusions and face reality-but then again, don’t we all construct our own realities? (That question, unsurprisingly, especially preoccupies her younger students.) As they pour forth the particulars of their lives, the narrator sparingly doles out some of hers while coping with texts and phone calls from her needy sons. It’s the first of many keening conversation she has with her students, Greek friends and fellow writers. ![]() ![]() “So much is lost…in the shipwreck,” he says mournfully. After learning the narrator is divorced, he tells her about his own marital misadventures. The nameless narrator is on a plane from London to Athens to teach a summer writing course when an older Greek man begins to confide in her about his unhappy childhood. Following an off-key memoir ( Aftermath, 2012), Cusk returns to fiction and top form in a novel about the stories we tell ourselves and others. ![]()
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