Meeting date: October 22, 2019 ;
Star rating: 0.4/5 starsThe 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, Susan Choi's 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.
Comments from attendees:
- The book jacket does not attract the right reader for this book!
- Many attendees did not finish this book; it was tortuous for them to read.
- Attendees reported that they could not follow the story.
- If there had been a hint that the story would stop and start over multiple times, we thought that could have helped those who couldn't follow the story.
- It's a metaphorical quagmire! Couldn't spot the themes through the long passages and cycling plot.
- The thematic question of what is fiction and what is reality was completely lost for many attendees.
- "You need a notebook and an advanced English degree to get this one."
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