Trust Exercise Susan Choi, 2019 Henry Holt & Company 272 pp. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Choi, Susan. This Study Guide consists of approximately 36 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Trust Exercise. SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise” takes place in a high school for the performing arts in an unnamed southern city. Yet, even after all of those discussions, I am still having trouble deciding how I feel about it. This 44-page guide for “Trust Exercise” by Susan Choi includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 3 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. It is hard to discuss this novel without ruining the … Trust Exercise is a buzzy book that came out this spring and has appeared all over the place ever since. From the acclaimed author of A Person of Interest and American Woman comes the multi-part story of a performing arts school in the 1980s. Our book club read it for our July pick, and Nicole and I did a book club discussion of it for our upcoming podcast episode (airing this Thursday). This week we’re taking a look at Pulitzer Prize finalist Susan Choi’s fifth novel, Trust Exercise. That immortal figure rises up at the center of Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise,” the latest of her startling novels about academic life. Trust Exercise. ISBN-13: 9781250309884 Summary 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.