Outline

by Rachel Cusk

I said that, on the contrary, I had come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible. One could make almost anything happen, if one tried hard enough, but the trying – it seemed to me – was almost always a sign that one was crossing the currents, was forcing events in a direction they did not naturally want to go, and though you might argue that nothing could ever be accomplished without going against nature to some extent, the artificiality of that vision and its consequences had become – to put it bluntly – anathema to me.

A very unusual point of view where the narrator remains "invisible," or, only made palpable through conversation. We only see others. We have no idea what she looks like. Intriguing enough that I will move on in the Trilogy.