pbNPR's Favorite Books of 2019b pRachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three literary masterpieces iThe Washington Posti whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in iCoventryi, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. piCoventryi encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Fran oise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in iGrantai Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this