Transcendence is the only explanation, because what happens in the novels’ time is strictly material, grounded in an urbanity that seems predictable until nothing really “happens.” Faye, over the course of the trilogy, teaches writing for money, applies unsuccessfully for a loan, renovates the house she can afford, goes for lunches, dinners, walks, dyes her hair a new shade of brown. Why must we be in this stifled, banal environment, with no room to think? How long do we have to sit here? The air cools, dims. At first, for several pages, it’s hard to relax. Passenger flight explains these incredible novels. She was reading a spam e-mail from an astrology service predicting “a major transit. She boarded, after lunch with a billionaire, another airplane at the start of the first novel, Outline.
FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her middle life, begins.
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