“Trust”, by Hernan Diaz, is a novel with many faces. It is at once a novel within a novel and a mystery within a history, but perhaps at its core this book can best be described as a puzzle of perspectives. These perspectives orbit around a Wall Street tycoon and his ailing wife, but which perspective, if any, can we trust? As readers we simultaneously become detectives of the truth and also fascinated by the unlimited power of finance, captivated by, as it says in the novel: “The incestuous genealogies of money – capital begetting capital begetting capital.” Ultimately, we learn that Diaz’s novel, like money itself, is not to be trusted.
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