I was completely
captivated by the characters in the first part of the novel.
There are four interlocked narratives in Trust; each one deepened and changed how I related to the married couple in the
first narrative—so I couldn’t stop reading.
The writing is beautiful. The
characters are lovingly drawn, whether they’re from the 1920s or the
1970s. There’s also a lot of American
history in the book, which I gobbled up. And the ending is a poignant and marvelous twist on the themes of love
and trust. A powerful, compelling novel!
Longlisted for the Booker Prize The Sunday Times Bestseller
Trust is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. Perfect for fans of Succession.
Can one person change the course of history?
A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. But now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage, and this wealthy man's story - of greed, love and betrayal - is about to slip from his grasp.
I was drawn to this book because of its focus on a group
of religious believers who have separated themselves so thoroughly from
civilization that they haven’t had contact with other humans for 50 years. How can you not be intrigued by that
premise?
Zhorov creates a rich,
sympathetic portrait of the believers (complete with a ghost) as they come in
contact with young Soviet scientists who are surveying the Siberian wilderness
for possible mining/industrial development. The scientists, educated idealists who have great hopes for the Soviet
Union after the death of Stalin, are forever changed by their encounters with
the believers. They, themselves, find
their own spiritual and political beliefs forever altered.
Based on a true story, this novel has kept me
thinking about belief and sacrifice for a long time.
A rich, immersive debut novel, inspired by true events, about a meeting between two women in 1970s Soviet Russia—a deeply religious homesteader living in isolation with her family on the Siberian taiga and an ambitious scientist—that irrevocably changes the course of both of their lives.
Galina, a promising young geologist from Moscow, is falling in love with her pilot, Snow Crane, on a trip exploring for minerals in Siberia. As their helicopter hovers over what should be a stretch of uninhabited forest, they see a small hut and a garden—and, the following day, when they hike from their field camp…
This is a fabulous, edgy tale that
features a beech marten as the main character.
Folktales and fairy tales are full of animal characters that make
difficult moral choices. But I’ve never
read anything quite like Zannoni’s novel. It’s unique.
The protagonist,
Archy, suffers from his earliest days, as many animals do. After being run off by a more powerful male
marten, he hitches his fortune to that of Samuel the Fox, a ruthless forest
dealmaker who wishes to be human.
What
follows is a drama of love, power, and revenge that echoes the biblical in grief
and revelation. What hard choices must
creatures make to survive? Who can be
trusted in the wild? What solace can
love bring, and how can death be faced?
This is no child’s story. It’s smart and sharp and inventive—like a Wind In The Willows without mercy. I
couldn’t put it down.
A stunning, ambitious novel that follows an unusual protagonist—a beech marten, a kind of weasel, who learns to read and write, discovers God and time, and develops a keen sense of self that makes him seem almost human.
My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy. Born into poverty, maimed by an accident, he is sold into servitude by his mother and taught to read and write by Solomon—a pawnbroking fox whose knowledge derives from a Bible that fell on his head while he was busy feeding on a hanged man.
A brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows.
In this craggy, unwelcoming world, the central character of Scribe ekes out a lonely living on the family farmstead where she was raised and where her sister met an untimely end.
Drawing on traditional folktales and the history and culture of Appalachia, Alyson Hagy has crafted a gripping, swiftly plotted novel that touches on pressing issues of our time―migration, pandemic disease, the rise of authoritarianism―and makes a compelling case for the power of stories to both show us the world and transform it.
