How can we settle into this when we simultaneously want to escape our own lives? "In Transit" tells with sharpness and wit of tangled longings, decisive moments, and the riddle of personal change. "A transitional phase," an astrological spam email predicts for her. And indeed, much is changing for the writer Faye: after a draining divorce, she has moved back to London with her two sons and has succumbed to a feeling that vanished just as quickly as it appeared while searching for an apartment. Unlike the dilapidated half of the house she now calls her own. She lives on a construction site, where a small catastrophe occurs daily as she tries to approach a place she once called home. She meets old friends and makes new acquaintances, learning about their fates.