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Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulTwo students at a performing-arts school fall in love, and then the book changes who is telling the story
Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
2019257 pagesDemanding readSteady pace
★ National Book Award for Fiction, 2019
Two performing-arts students from different backgrounds fall in love
Sarah and David are students at a performing-arts school. They come from different backgrounds, and they fall in love. The book is built in a way that changes how the reader sees the story as it goes on. Choi has said she wrote it after the 2016 U.S. election.
More about this book
Who
Sarah and David, performing-arts students who fall in love.
World
A performing-arts school and the people who surround its students.
What makes it different
The novel has a meta structure that changes its point of view partway through.
Feel
Tense and thoughtful. It won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.
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Further reading
- Trust ExerciseWikipedia