Ep. 109 Trust Exercise by Susan Choi -- The Stacks Book Club (Brandon Taylor)
Its The Stacks Book Club day, and we're discussing the 2019 National Book Award winner in fiction, Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. Our guest is Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, and if you missed Brandon's first episode you can hear it here. Trust Exercise looks at fiction, perspective, and truth as it ventures back to a 1980's performing arts high school. On this episode we discuss the many twists and turns we experienced as readers and our takes on the characters. We dive deep today, and that means lots of spoilers. You've been warned.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Fame (Alan Parker, 1980)
Guy and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955)
Euphoria (HBO)
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
The Affair (Showtime)
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
There There by Tommy Orange
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gysai
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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