Rachel Cusk's memoir of her marriage breaking down and the disorienting life that follows for her and her two young daughters. She reads her own separation through Greek tragedy, writing about family, authority and the self in the wreckage of a household.
Books mentioned in Aftermath (3)
The Oresteia by Aeschylus: “Aeschylus, The Oresteia (epigraph); later “Agamemnon, in the Oresteia of Aeschylus, returns to his palace in Argos””
Antigone by Sophocles: “There’s a moment in Sophocles’s play Antigone when something new is born, or rather, when one thing becomes two”
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles: “In Oedipus Rex every kind of authority is damaged by precisely this process.”