An open meeting for a book discussion, will be held on Tuesday, October 10 at 1:30pm in MLK Library, room 401-G; we’ll discuss Trust by Hernan Diaz, the winner of last year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Book Summary
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth — all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
Hernan Diaz’s Trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.
At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, the novel engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
Book Availability
Demand for DCPL’s copies of Trust is so great (several hundred hold requests) that you won’t be able to get hold of one in time for the meeting if you go through the usual process. (Unfortunately the same applies to the ebook and eaudiobook in Overdrive.) However, we in the MLK Adult Services team have a couple copies in our workroom, so if you’d like a print copy, please stop by one of the staff desks on the third floor of MLK Library and ask for a copy of the book.
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Peter Costolanski
Adult Services
DCPL
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