Such a creative structure to this Pulitzer Prize-winning literary historical fiction novel! The form and some striking prose made this a 5 star read for me.
The four parts of the book are presented as a novel, the rough draft of a memoir, a complete memoir, and the entries in of private journal. You may be confused as to the point at first, but as you read along you will begin to realize what the different sections have to do with one another, and just what it is that they represent.
The story at the center revolves around the lives of a New York City power couple in the early twentieth century, a husband and wife whose social standing was gained through great successes on Wall Street. But taken together, the four parts of the book make the point that those in positions of relative power (due to wealth, status, sex, influence/reach) get to decide which voices are heard, thereby controlling the narrative and effectively “bending and realigning reality”.
And if the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction isn’t enough to tickle your discerning reader’s fancy, Trust was also one of The New York Times top ten books of 2022, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, AND one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2022. BOOM!
Jessica Crawford 