Unreal Reads: Trust

About this event

Hernan Diaz's novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception, which was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Join the Brighton Branch's fiction book club to discuss Trust in November.

Print copies available at the Brighton Branch front desk, while supplies last.

The Unreal Reads book club reads fiction of all kinds. We typically meet on the first Thursday of the month, 6:30 pm at the Brighton Branch, barring holidays or special events. No registration required, you're welcome to drop in. We also welcome readers who decided not to or weren't able to finish the book — as long as you're okay with spoilers.

Book Description

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 boundless 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, TRUST 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.

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