Virtual Author Talk: Hernan Diaz "Trust"

Virtual Author Talk: Hernan Diaz "Trust"

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  Dates & times
  • Tue, 09/27/2022 - 4:00pm
  Category Adult Program
  Age Groups Adults
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  Details and registration http://findlaylibrary.evanced.info/eventsignup.asp?ID=16433

 

Join us for an afternoon with Pulitzer Prize finalist and PEN/Faulkner Award winner Hernan Diaz, author of "In the Distance" and "Trust". Diaz holds a Ph.D. from NYU and edits, the Spanish-language journal "Revista Hispnica Moderna", at Columbia University.

Diazs new book, "Trust", is set during the roar of the 1920s around the Wall Street tycoon Benjamin Rask and his wife, Helen. Together, they have risen to the top of the world of seemingly endless wealthall as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diazs Trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one anotherand in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.