Trust
★★★★★
Trust was one of my top-ranked books for 2022, and I’m republishing this review because it just won a Pulitzer. Congrats to Hernan Diaz!
It’s hard to describe this novel without giving away the thing that makes it so great. But here are a few clues: 1920s, finance, marriage, mental illness, high society, writing, WTF, and seriously WTF. In some ways, this book is straightforward with simple narration—easy to read, even! Yet, all the while, you never know what is real or whom to trust. I loved Trust, and when you read it I would like to discuss, please. This one definitely deserves a book club.
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“While grateful for it, he was suspicious of the American notion of freedom, which he viewed as a strict synonym of conformism, or, even worse, the mere possibility of choosing between different versions of the same product.”