Trust Exercise

Susan Choi 2019

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
psychological literary fiction trauma

Our Take

A performing arts high school in the 1980s, a teacher who crosses lines, and a narrative that shifts so drastically midway through that you question everything you have read. Choi makes unreliability structural — the book itself cannot be trusted, and that instability is the point.

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