Was this something you ever considered before? How do you see the importance of gender or race in the power-wealth dynamic today as compared to the time period of the novel? Trust encourages the reader to consider the place of women and minorities in relation to institutions and narratives that seem to bolster the expansion of wealth in this country.Did Trust make you think about the ways that history has traditionally been recorded, shaped, and remembered? Or about which people or elements get overlooked, or even erased?.What do you think is the relationship between power and money? Can you have one without the other?.Which characters are the most visible to the public and which are less seen? Why? What accounts for the differences in visibility? How does a given character's public visibility affect the larger perception of history? How does Diaz encourage the reader to think about ideas of visibility in the book? Related to the theme of voice is the theme of visibility.How do these two themes work together in the book? How do you think the different characters would describe their own power, or their own voice, and the relationship between the two? Another theme is history, how it gets decided and shared, and who gets to tell the story. One of the major themes of Trust is power, who has it, how they got it, how they maintain it.Which revelations surprised you most? Whose perspective and narrative did you most enjoy or value and why?

Each separate piece of the book offers a different character's perspective on the same period, subjects, relationships, and events, revealing new truths and calling others into question.Why do you think the author chose to tell the larger story this way? How do the different sections speak to each other? Trust is a novel that is told through four separate documents – a novel-within-the-novel, an unfinished manuscript, a memoir, and a diary.

Trust by diaz