Outline

The narrator floats through the book revealing only the barest of details about herself - it is the observations of the people that float into her sphere and the conversations she elicits from them that make up the bulk of the book. These conversations are observed at a remove, noted with little comment, eliciting little emotion from the narrator. it's a quiet, introspective read and Cusk does such a wonderful job doing that thing we all do - it's literary people watching.