Notes getting repetitious toward the end of volume 2 of Rachel Cusk's trilogy

Keeping w/ the theme of the disappearing, or invisible, narrator - who, btw, is named Faye, as we learn in I think one aside in this entire novel - so though she may seem like a stand-in for Rachel Cusk in Transit (and the preceding novel, Outline) - she isn't exactly to be taken as the author herself: in the penultimate chapter of Transit we step in for I think the 3rd maybe the 4th time on the reno work under way on the narrator's apartment. The workers are creating a mess and a racket as they put in new flooring and sound-proofing; their work of course displaces the narrator, disrupts her family (her two boys are off elsewhere in London w/ their father and occasionally make appearances via frantic phone calls), and establishing a contentious relationship w/ the downstairs neighbors, two mean and vulgar louts who threaten the narrator and trash-talk her to the neighborhood - an extreme case of antagonism toward the gentrification of an old neighborhood. Throughout all this, the narrator is cool and distant; we know nothing about her longings and fears and anxieties. Once again, her role to elicit stories from others, such as the worker in her house, an immigrant from Poland, whose family is back home and whom he misses, and who is in a contentious relationship w/ his father because he built a house for his family that his father believes is ridiculous because of all the open space and glass (the builder yearns to be an architect). Strange that we know more about him than about the author/narrator. We even go into one of her writing classes, but the class is more or less commandeered by one of the students - we don't get to see the narrator talk or teach or even opine. At the end of the chapter she has dinner w/ a man who has for the past year been trying to get a date w/ her; not much happens on this date - but it further builds the case that the narrator is attractive, draws men to her (in part because of her intelligence and literary stature), but offers the men little or no affection in return. We learn about her through what she's not - but nearing the end of the 2nd vol of this in-progress trilogy the notes are getting repetitious and I am hoping (against hope) for some kind of development or denouement.
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