Trust By Hernan Diaz

We had gone to the University to pickup our son for Christmas and decided to have lunch there as we sometimes do. There was a 45 minute wait for the table and so we went to checkout the bookstore that was right next to the restaurant. This book immediately caught my eye and I managed to read quite a few pages before we got the call. On the way back I bought the book and came home and finished it. A very novel way of story telling that will catch your attention for sure. The same story is told from four different view points. I was so caught up in the first version that I refused to budge when the second, more sane version came along but warmed up to the idea that the story and characters were changing by the time the third version came along and was fully sold onto the last one. Diaz is quite accomplished in that each of the stories gives the reader a certain closure on the at once enigmatic and pedantic couple around whom the stories are built. You can read this one for sure when you get that urge to read 'something' and want a satisfying read. Almost like a good meal of comfort food.