Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi · 2019
Literary Fiction · ranked #232 in category
Winner · The National Book Award for Fiction, 2019
Students at a competitive performing arts high school in the 1980s fall in love, betray each other and are shaped by a charismatic drama teacher — and then the novel restarts, reframing everything from a different perspective, and again. Choi's National Book Award-winning novel is a formally audacious examination of memory, narrative authority and who gets to tell the story of what happened.
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- Essential Read
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