Aftermath
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Rachel Cusk
In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, a provocative and often startlingly funny memoir about the cataclysm of motherhood. Widely acclaimed, the book started hundreds of arguments that continue to this day. Now, in her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women.An unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed—"a jigsaw dismantled"—it is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society. "Aftermath" originally signified a second harvest, and in this book, unlike any other written on the subject, Cusk discovers opportunity as well as pain. With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Rachel Cusk maps a transformative chapter of her life with an acuity and wit that will help us understand our own.
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Author
Rachel Cusk
Pages
160
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date
2012-08-07
ISBN
1466820187 9781466820180
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I’m not sure how this book came to be on my to read list, and I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it. It’s not a feel good book, and it’s hard to know if I identify with the author at all having no experience navigating life divorced with kids. It was an interesting read, to be sure, full of dives into her thoughts and feelings, good bad or ugly, which I generally love. It’s unsurprising since she seems honesty imperative. That said, I can see this book’s larger importance to humans in general. Surely there is an audience out there that feels the exact way she does, and feeling not alone is huge. "
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