![]() ![]() The real story comes in the second two acts, in a twist I won’t reveal here. That’s the first section of Trust Exercise, and as compelling as it is - Choi renders the insular world of a theater kid’s high school with claustrophobic intensity - it’s mostly setup. Kingsley, forces them to mine that relationship for stage material repeatedly in front of their classmates. Two of them, David and Sarah, are enmeshed in a torrid will-they-won’t-they affair their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. It concerns a group of young teenagers at a performing arts high school, a bunch of high-achieving theater kids always trembling on the edge of hormonal overload. ![]() Trust Exercise is a viciously elegant novel with a structure so sharp it cuts. ![]() Fiction Trust Exercise by Susan Choi - WINNER The winners, which were announced November 20, are marked at the top of each category. Here are our thoughts on the class of 2019. And every year ( well, every year since 2014), we here at Vox read them all to help smart, busy people like you figure out which ones you’re interested in. Every year, the National Book Foundation nominates 25 books - five fiction, five nonfiction, five poetry, five translated, five young adult - for the National Book Award, which celebrates the best of American literature. ![]()
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