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Trust Exercise

by Susan Choi, Adina Verson, Jennifer Lim, Suehyla El-Attar · first published 2019

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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 unnoticed—or untoyed with—by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penet

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  • mtmail · Dec 29, 2019 · Recommends

    …and Memory in Northern Ireland,” by Patrick Radden Keefe “Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox “The Topeka School,” by Ben Lerner “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” by Jia Tolentino “Trust Exercise,” by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction) “We Live in Water: Stories,” by Jess Walter

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  • dredmorbius · Dec 30, 2019 · Recommends

    …Lerner https://www.worldcat.org/title/topeka-school/oclc/1126252713 15. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino https://www.worldcat.org/title/trick-mirror-reflections-on-s... 16. Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction) https://www.worldcat.org/title/trust-exercise/oclc/111435376... 17. We Live in Water: Stories, by Jess Walter https://www.worldcat.org/title/we-live-in-water-stories/oclc...…

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