Join the HCSF Reading Group to discuss Trust By Hernan Diaz
In-Person Meeting
Sunday, July 20, 2025
4:30-6:00 pm Pacific
In-person, SF location
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Registration ends Friday, July 18
Trust
by Hernan Diaz
2022, 416 pages
2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
#50 in the NYT’s Top 100 Books of the 21st C.
"How many ways can you tell the same story? Which one is true? These questions and their ethical implications hover over Diaz’s second novel. It starts out as a tale of wealth and power in 1920s New York — something Theodore Dreiser or Edith Wharton might have taken up — and leaps forward in time, across the boroughs and down the social ladder, breathing new vitality into the weary tropes of historical fiction." (A.O. Scott, NYT)
"Be prepared for some serious mind games! The story of a Manhattan financier and his high-society wife is told through four “books” — a novel, a manuscript, a memoir and a journal. But which version should you trust? Is there even one true reality? As we sift our way through these competing narratives, Diaz serves us clues and red herrings in equal measure. We know we are being gamed, but we’re not sure exactly which character is gaming us. While each reader will draw their own conclusion when they reach the end of this complex and thrilling book, what is never disputed is the ease with which money and power can bend reality itself." (Dua Lipa, singer and songwriter, NYT)
Questions? Contact
Kirsten Miclau
HCSF Reading Group Organizer
readinggroup@harvardclubsf.org