'Hypnotizing.' -Laird Hunt, Los Angeles Times 'How much should we say, this novel asks, and when should we say it? To whom? In Cusk's case, a few words are enough to keep readers engrossed, waiting for more.' -Jackie Thomas Kennedy, Minneapolis StarTribune the establishment of a compelling, dreamlike language and worldview that are utterly her own.' -Jamie Fisher, The Washington Post 'Rachel Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling. 'Alienating yet intimate, dreamlike yet grounded, slim yet substantial, delicate but fierce, Cusk's writing feels, exhilaratingly, unlike any other fiction being written these days.' -Emily Donaldson, The Toronto Star

Her narrator's ongoing odyssey toward finding her bearings in her new life is a journey worth following.' -Heller McAlpin, NPR With its resonant comparisons between life and art (including literature) and its enjoyably varied, more tightly structured series of vignettes, Transit fills in the 'sketched-out form' Cusk introduced in Outline. Cusk gives us engrossing, probing conversations. 'A reading journey you wish didn't have to end. This writer never has to recover her aplomb because she never loses it.' -Dwight Garner, The New York Times Each sentence is drilled down, as with an auger. writing offers the iron-rich pleasures of voice instead of style. It is a work of great ambition, beautifully executed, a worthy successor of the brilliant Outline.' -Monica Ali, The New York Times Book Review Transit is a slender novel that contains multitudes. 'A work of stunning beauty, deep insight, and great originality.

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