A review by maura_kathleen
Trust by Hernán Díaz

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

A great read, although I preferred its Pulitzer twin. Strong prose suited to its various modes. I liked it better as a work about the inadequacies and abuses of historicizing, commemorating, etc.... and of the power afforded to the narratives told the loudest. As someone who has worked in writing about finance, I thought it handled its depiction of the industry persuasively, especially insofar as it captured the enduring absurdity of credit-taking in a system with so many competing and fluid interests. But the scope was too intimate for me to find in it a ~comprehensive~ statement on how capitalistic power entrenches itself, and at whose expense... makes a striking statement on certain victims but was more glancing than I was expecting on some who drew worse lots. Overall, though, I was engaged and surprised and found this very worthwhile.