Coventry: Essays

"After finishing Rachel Cusk’s first collection of essays, Coventry, I read passages aloud to a friend over coffee. This is all you can ask of a book – to excite you enough to break out of your own head to share the words with someone else. Divided into three sections – personal essay, cultural criticism and literary criticism – Coventry is concerned with how stories obey or reject truth. Cusk probes at motherhood, Eat, Pray, Love, driving, Edith Wharton (among other seminal authors) while chipping away at the stories we tell ourselves, the stories others give us and the stories we read."