Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

A fearless and transformative exploration of divorce's impact on women's lives

In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, a provocative and often startlingly funny memoir about the cataclysm of motherhood. Now, in her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women.

Aftermath is an unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed—"a jigsaw dismantled". With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Cu...