The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk. 2004 Fourth Estate, first U.S. edition, 228 pages. Cusk is a British novelist known for her autofiction work and her breakout memoir A Life's Work about the ambivalence of motherhood. Lucky Ones was her fourth work of fiction and consists of five intersecting stories.

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"Tiredness pressed against her face like a boot."