Trust

Hernan Diaz's 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — told in four parts, each rewriting the story of a Gilded Age financial titan and his wife from a different perspective — examining how wealth controls narrative and how women's stories are erased from official history.

Creates the most formally sophisticated analysis of American wealth and narrative — Trust's four-part structure (fiction, memoir, diary, autobiography) examines the same period from four angles, each revealing how the previous account serves the interests of the teller; the structural innovation serves its thematic argument about who controls history.