A review by mdarceyhall
Second Place by Rachel Cusk

3.0

This book includes beautiful and philosophical lines about life and art and women's place in the world, but you have to dig to find them in the densely-packed earth that is the narration. As the narration is largely a reflection of what happens as the narrator retells it to the mysterious Jeffers character (and therefore heavily dependent on internal dialogue and philosophical debates), form takes precedence over function. Books like these require a second reading to really appreciate, but I'm not sure if it drew me in enough to encourage me to dive in again.