Olive Fellows (abookolive)'s Reviews > Trust

Bonds, futures, and securities: these products within the financial world practically offer themselves up to double entendres. In an interpersonal relationship, these words imply closeness, vows, maybe even love. On Wall Street, they mean investments, strategy, and cold hard cash. But however disparate the worlds of matrimony and finance may be, there is overlap. Both involve expectations and obligations. There is partnership. There is risk. At the center of that Venn diagram sits “Trust,” the intellectual new historical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz. It’s a book that presents the myths and realities of a fictional power couple who actually made money when the stock market crashed in 1929.

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