Trust, by Hernan Diaz, was the book chosen by The Humanities Institute at UCSC to be its selection for "The Deep Read" for 2024. A picture of the cover is seen above. In September of that year, The New York Times issued a compendium of what The Times has denominated The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Trust is #50 on the list. The book was also the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2023. If you would like to read a review, you can click the link to the title in the first line of this blog posting.
I missed out on participating in the "The Deep Read" this year, and I ended up reading Trust only because I picked it up, more or less by chance, from one of the "Little Free Libraries" that abound in Santa Cruz. I liked the book!
The blurb on the website that lists Trust as a Pulitzer Prize winner reads this way:
A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.
Not mentioned, I am sorry to say, is the book's profoundly "feminist" message. Trust really insists that a typically common demand for male "dominance" is deeply-rooted and profoundly wrong. That is what struck me most forcefully.
Trust is very definitely a book worth reading!
Trust me on this!
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