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Choi uses formal instability to inquire into consent, memory, and authority.
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Trust Exercise
Susan Choi2019 selection · Literary fiction
Trust Exercise
At a performing-arts school, teenagers submit to an influential teacher and volatile relationships. A later perspective overturns the apparent account and challenges who controls it.
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You enjoy novels that disrupt their own narrative contract.
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