RaveElleShe is ever present, and yet not present at all, seemingly unmoved by everything. Both Cusk’s prose and Faye’s character are a study in subtlety and control ... Transit makes no apologies for this limited view of the world. And why should it, in its experimental bluntness and forthrightness. The prose blends cool, pared-back observations with beautifully textured sentences ... At the heart of Transit is the idea that we long to feel real, and to be seen, particularly as we age. Cusk treats the themes of invisibility, aging, and womanhood with acute precision by allotting them absence and silence. Faye, shadowy and hardly seen by others, offers a portrait of a state shared by other women ... It is an important and transformative book, both because of the social and political questions it raises about gender and the exploration of truth as a lie within the walls of fiction.
Lionel Shriver
RaveElle...[a] hilarious, brilliant new novel ... Shriver's foray into the current dystopian trend in literary fiction may instinctively alienate—We're all feeling apocalyptic enough, thank you!—but read this anyway; particularly if you loved, as we bookish females have, her The Post-Birthday World.
