Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
National Book Award for Fiction · 2019 · WinnerNational Book Award for Fiction · 2018 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for FictionFiction | 2019 | Winner |
| National Book Award for FictionFiction | 2018 | Shortlist |
About This Book
In the 1980s, two students at a performing arts high school—Sarah and David—fall into an intense romance under the guidance of their charismatic teacher. The novel's second half radically reframes and rewrites the first, raising questions about narrative authority, memory, and consent.
About the Author
Susan ChoiAmerican
Susan Choi was born in 1969 in South Bend, Indiana, to a Korean father and Jewish American mother. She studied at Yale University and earned an MFA from Cornell University. She is a professor of writing at Yale and has taught at Princeton, Cornell, and other universities. Read more →
