Award-winning author Rachel Cusk's new book concludes her iconoclastic trilogy, which began with 'Contour' and 'Transit.' Cusk explores the nature of family and art, justice, love, and suffering. Her heroine, Faye, arrives in a rapidly changing Europe, where questions of personal and political identity are being fiercely debated. Encountering the rituals of the literary world, she discovers that amidst the diverging expectations of the public demeanor of the creative, there is no room for the story of the real person. In the people she encounters, Faye perceives a tension between truth and public image—a fissure that concentrates enormous dramatic power as 'Kudos' builds to a beautiful and profound climax.