Trust Exercise

Author: Susan Choi

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  • : $30.00 AUD
  • : 9781788161671
  • : Serpent's Tail
  • : Serpent's Tail
  • : January 2019
  • : 29.99
  • : June 2019
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  • : Susan Choi
  • : Hardback
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Barcode 9781788161671
9781788161671

Description

An electrifying novel that speaks directly to the #metoo movement. In their first term at a highly competitive performing arts high school, two students, Sarah and David, fall deeply and obsessively in love. Under the care of Mr. Kingsley, their magnetic and manipulative drama instructor, they and their peers exist in a rarefied bubble, where the boundaries between students and teachers become first dangerously blurred, and then completely broken. The outside world of family and class, academic pressure and the future can't affect them-until it does-and they must deal with the ensuing rejection, rebellion, and heartbreak. Two decades on we learn that what we were told about these teenagers' lives is not completely true, but not completely false, either. The real story is larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime. Captivating and brilliant, Trust Exercise is a novel about the treacherous terrain of adolescence, how we define consent, and what we lose, gain, and never get over as we navigate our way into adulthood's mysterious structures of sex and power.

Awards

Winner - National Book Award 2019