Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
ISBN-10
1466820187
ISBN-13
9781466820180
Series
Aftermath
Category
Social Science
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2012-08-07
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author
Rachel Cusk

Description

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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