Rachel Cusk's memoir of divorce explores the emotional upheaval of separation with raw honesty and literary depth.
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Rachel Cusk's memoir of divorce explores the emotional upheaval of separation with raw honesty and literary depth.
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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 ...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Brief mentions of intimacy; no explicit scenes depicted. To a character's past sexual assault; not central.
Violence & gore
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No violence or gore depicted.
Profanity
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Substance use
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Mentions of smoking; not a central theme.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Themes of gender roles and societal views on divorce and motherhood.
Self-harm / suicide
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Mentions of emotional distress and near-starvation; not explicit.
Abuse & suffering
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Emotional suffering from divorce; no physical abuse depicted. To a character's past sexual assault; not central.
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