Trust is by Hernan Diaz. A very different type of historical fiction novel. There is not much I can say without giving away the conceit of the plot. The book starts with a "novel" written in 1937 that was very successful. The book is about a legendary Wall Street tycoon and his wife, Benjamin and Helen Rask. Rask is said to have contributed to and profited from the crash of 1929 and Helen is said to have gone insane and died in a sanitorium in Europe. This book however, may not tell the true story of the couple it was based on and this is the purpose of the rest of the book. However, which version of the story is real and which narrator can you trust? A literary puzzle, brilliantly written, which asks the reader to think seriously about the meaning of truth and trust and how one can determine who is telling the truth and whose narrative can be trusted.
Ratings: 12th grade - 7 out of 10.
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