![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, this is all fiction, and Diaz has given us a thoroughly literary novel. You also have a penchant for storytelling that may come in handy.” Like the New Yorker editor, very few people know, due to her having signed a confidentiality agreement, that Ida’s career path was inextricably linked to the fact that decades earlier, Andrew had hired her as his secretary, with a very specific project in mind: “I shall speak you will take dictation. The assignment in question was offered in 1981, on the occasion of the opening of the Bevel House, a new addition to Manhattan’s Museum Mile that celebrates the business acumen of Andrew Bevel and the philanthropic legacy of Andrew and his wife, Mildred. ![]() Ida, the Brooklyn-born daughter of an Italian activist, is 70 years old when she begins telling her story it is nearing the end of the 20th century, and she is a writer, successful enough to turn down an assignment from The New Yorker. ![]() It takes about 200 pages before readers meet Ida Partenza in Hernan Diaz’s “ Trust,” a fragmentary novel told across four interlocking fictional books: “Bonds” by Harold Vanner “My Life” by Andrew Bevel “A Memoir, Remembered” by Ida and “Futures” by Mildred Bevel. ![]()
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