PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksCusk’s trilogy — Outline, Transit, and now Kudos — also features a narrator who is effaced, hidden, largely silent on the subject of herself, whom we nevertheless come to know in a profound manner through the stories she relays about others ... a refreshing new model of storytelling for Cusk ... Cusk seems to be saying something valuable about shutting up and listening. And also about attention. Attention, she suggests, can yield grace ... It’s difficult to catch Cusk, or Faye, in the act. How does she manage to paint such an abominable picture of this woman with a series of neutral, apparently reasonable, observations? ... In remaining largely unknown, Faye allows Cusk to explore universality, which is a sort of truth, perhaps a sort of grace.
