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Book · 2019
Trust Exercise
Two students at a competitive performing arts high school in the 1980s become consumed by an intense romance under the influence of their charismatic acting teacher, before later narrative shifts question what actually occurred.
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TRUST EXERCISE is a novel that can be equally appreciated by book groups, which undoubtedly will respond to its characters and themes, and by students of writing, who will return to it again and again as a stunning example of a writer stretching and perfecting her craft.
Norah Piehl on Bookreporter Trust Exercise is marketed, accurately, as a #MeToo novel, and it shows with painful rawness how much damage can be wrought without anyone realising they are the victim. But this designation doesn’t capture the complexity of Choi’s investigation into human relations.
Lara Feigel on The Guardian Choi’s new novel, her fifth, is titled Trust Exercise, and it burns more brightly than anything she’s yet written. This psychologically acute novel enlists your heart as well as your mind. Zing will go certain taut strings in your chest ... Choi builds her novel carefully, but it is packed with wild moments of grace and fear and abandon.
Dwight Garner on The New York Times
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