Fiction Book Club
Although we have plans to expand the book club choices into many sub genres, we are starting book clubs at the store on a small scale with one fiction pick and one non-fiction pick each month. February's fiction pick is Trust by Hernan Diaz.
To accommodate the most schedules, there are two meetings for this book club:
Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 1 pm
Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 5:30 pm
You are welcome to come to either meeting time! Meetings last about an hour and discussions are led by one of our staff bookworms. This is a casual, no-commitment book club. There is no fee but we'd appreciate you buying the book club book from us or making another purchase of your choice while you're here. This will help us keep events like this going.
Copies of the book are available for purchase now in the store.
Are you more of an audio book person? If you buy your audio book through the indie audio book app Libro.fm via our referral link, our store gets a cut of that sale. Here's the audio book link: https://libro.fm/.../9780593557112-trust-pulitzer-prize...
About the book:
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily "
A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair “A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire
"Exhilarating.” —New York Times
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all 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 Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and 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. At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
Fiction Book Club
Date and Time
Tuesday Feb 6, 2024
Meeting #1: 1PM
Meeting #2: 5:30PM
Location
Three Bells Books
14 S Commercial Alley
Mason City, IA 50401