It took me some time to process its impressiveness, but ultimately I loved it. I was curious about Trust because people are talking about it as a possible Booker Prize contender. An elegant, multifaceted epic that recovers the voices buried under the myths that justify our foundational inequality, Trust is a literary triumph with a beating heart and urgent stakes. Provocative and propulsive, Trust engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the reality-warping gravitational pull of money and how power often manipulates facts. The result is a novel that becomes more exhilarating and profound with each new layer and revelation. Hernan Diaz's Trust brilliantly puts the story of these characters into conversation with other accounts-and in tension with the life and perspective of a young woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. This is the mystery at the center of a successful 1938 novel entitled Bonds, which all of New York seems to have read. At what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? Rumors about Benjamin's financial maneuvers and Helen's reclusiveness start to spread-all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end.
But the secrets around their affluence and grandeur incites gossip. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception.Įven through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask.
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