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Saturday, May 7, 2022

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

This starts off as a teenage love story, and then it goes off the rails a bit, coming to a surprising end. Sarah is a loner with aspirations toward punkdom; David is a charismatic rich kid with a sensitive side. Unlike the rest of the book, this first section is a dual point-of-view, with the narrator moving back and forth between the minds of both Sarah and David, although Sarah’s perspective dominates. They are doing okay for themselves until the teacher starts veering into very creepy under the guise of theatrical exercises, and then it veers into the realm of #MeToo, rape culture, the deeply damaging effect older men can have on young women, and the very understandable anger they harbor as a result.

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