A review by scribblepost
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk

4.0

I'll read anything she writes, though initially I was less engaged with this than I expected. The book addresses marriage less than separation, and on that subject I felt her fiction ('Outline' & 'Transit') had more emotional resonance than this memoir. Still, I liked her dissection of patriarchy and gender imparity, especially where she weaves in Greek mythology. Her last chapter shifts to fiction from an outside POV, which I found jarring at first. But then I got sucked into the story and it actually pulled the whole thing together for me. She's quite pitiless writing about herself through fiction. It works.