Rachel Cusk

Author Rachel Cusk began her career writing traditional novels that won high praise and awards. Then she published a series of raw, unsentimental memoirs about motherhood, family life, and divorce that shocked readers, especially in England, where the Canadian-born author has lived much of her life. She followed up with three novels, the Outline trilogy (2014–18), that dismantled conventional approaches to plot and characterization and erased the boundary between fiction and autobiography. Critics called the...