I decided to hope for good, because the story is about teens attending a dramatic arts school, which sounds like The Ensemble, a novel I loved.
trust exercise by Susan Choi ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 2, 2019 What begins as the story of obsessive first love between drama students at a competitive performing arts high school in the early 1980s twists into something much darker in Choi’s singular new novel. A perfect knockout, with profound things to say about art-making, adolescence, and consent." Susan Choi’s new novel, Trust Exercise is a polarizing book, with Goodreads reviews divided between 1 star and 5. Trust Exercise is a brilliant and challenging novel, an uncanny evocation of the not-so-distant past that turns into a meditation on the slipperiness of memory and the ethics of storytelling.
Trust Exercise Susan Choi, 2019 Henry Holt & Company 272 pp.
Question about Trust Exercise: “The endings of parts 2 and 3 struck me as over-the-top/ ham-fisted and unsatisfying but I probably missed the point.
ISBN-13: 9781250309884 Summary In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. If you aren’t on board with the unexpected turns Choi’s meta novel has to offer, that’s just fine. Susan Choi is a masterful novelist, who understands exactly where we are right now and how we got here. ―Julie Buntin, author of Marlena ... Trust Exercise is going to be a hard book to review without spoilers (but I shall attempt).
―Julie Buntin, author of Marlena ... Trust Exercise is going to be a hard book to review without spoilers (but I shall attempt). Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, which recently won the National Book Award for fiction, has proven divisive among readers.You need only look at the Goodreads reviews to see how thoroughly it has angered some and thrilled others. Susan Choi's Trust Exercise is about first love and artistic aspirations that are too big for the characters' actual ability. Susan Choi is a masterful novelist, who understands exactly where we are right now and how we got here. Susan Choi is a master and Trust Exercise should be on every human's reading list. Susan Choi gives a gonzo literary performance with Trust Exercise: EW review this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Susan Choi has been writing novels for 20 years, but “Trust Exercise,” her mind-bending new book, is her best shot at joining the pantheon of the greatest living writers. The first section of Trust Exercise takes place in a sprawling, anonymous city where the main characters attend a prestigious performing arts high school modeled on the school Choi herself attended in Houston. I’m almost at the point where I face a kind of dread when I begin a novel and realize it is narrated by a young girl or a young woman. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” follows the intense relationships and betrayals among high school friends and their teachers. ... Trust Exercise is a novel narrated by three different women at three different times. That can be a good thing or a bad thing.
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise is another novel narrated by a young girl. By Laura Dickerman December 18, 2019 February 4th, ... spoilers ahead! Trust Exercise is a brilliant and challenging novel, an uncanny evocation of the not-so-distant past that turns into a meditation on the slipperiness of memory and the ethics of storytelling. Susan Choi is a master and Trust Exercise should be on every human's reading list. A perfect knockout, with profound things to say about art-making, adolescence, and consent."
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Of the many intriguing ways Choi plays with voice, perspective and nomenclature, Karen’s section is the most striking.