January book review #1

                                                                                                                                                                 Welcome to the review of my first book for January 2023! I read Trust by Hernan Diaz and I did enjoy it overall. I liked the prose of the book and felt that it was well written. The story is interesting and I thought  the way the author structured the narrative was pretty good.                                                                           The story opens with a novel Bonds by a character named Harold Vanner. This book is based on the life of a New York stockbroker Andrew Bevel and his wife Mildred. The novel presents a bleak look at the Bevels life, who are renamed Benjamin and Helen Rask in Vanners story. Fiction does mirror the reality for the Bevels in some ways. Not so much in others. Trust is told through Vanners novel, Andrew Bevel and the drafts of his autobiography, Ida, the young woman who is tasked to help write the autobiography, and Mildred Bevel. In the 1920’s, Andrew Bevel became very successful on Wall Street which lasted most of the decade. Mildred was part of the upper society at the time, participating in charitable events and giving philanthropically to endowments. Before the stock market crash of 1929, Andrew Bevel sells a lot of his stock, causing a lot of people to blame him for the crash. After Harold Vanners book is published, Bevel hires Ida, a daughter of immigrants from Italy, to write his autobiography to counter what Vanners wrote. Ida also goes back to the Bevel house when it is made into a museum fifty years later and finds Mildreds journal in a ledger book. 

 I liked the twist in the book, I like how Mildred was given a voice via her journals in the end. It was interesting the dynamic between Ida and her father and what some Italian immigrants went through. Trust was an interesting and good read.

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Content warnings: some language, talk about mental health problems and descriptions of seizures 
















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