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"Choi is a masterful novelist, who understands exactly where we are and how we got here." --Tom Perrotta "This witty, sharp, unsettling novel grabs you and won't let you go." --Dana Spiotta NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019 by Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, Electric Literature, The Millions, PopSugar, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Publisher's Weekly, Lit Hub, Bustle, and The Huffington Post 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. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school's walls--until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true--though it's not false, either. It takes until the book's stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place--revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence. As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.
About the Author
Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana and was raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker forThe New Yorker.Her latest novel,Trust Exercise, was the winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, and was a national bestseller.Trust Exercisewas also named a best book of 2019 byThe Washington Post,Vanity Fair,New York Magazine,Marie Claire,Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed,Entertainment Weekly,Los Angeles Times,ELLE, Bustle,Town & Country,Publishers Weekly, The Millions,The Chicago Tribune, andTIME.Her first novel,The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel,American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.With David Remnick she co-edited the anthologyWonderful Town: New York StoriesfromThe New Yorker, and her non-fiction has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Tin House, Allure, O, andThe New York Timesand in anthologies such asMoney Changes EverythingandBrooklyn Was Mine.A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Wells and their sons Dexter and Elliot
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