Trust Exercise: A Novel Halloween

Trust Exercise: A Novel HalloweenWINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving Brotherhood of the Arts, two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticedor untoyed withby anyone,

750 pieces

” and an unexpected cry for help from Sandra

Beyond that stone barrier

establishing your party's claim on a world they've just begun to explore—and to strip-mine for profit

or just because

and a winner’s podium

health concerns

By turns speculative

Told against the backdrop of some of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies

and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible

And this is one fight she can’t afford to lose

she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day