HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL
When I started writing this column, Trust by Hernan Diaz was on the 2022 Booker Prize Longlist, and I had begun reading this fascinating, Rashomon-effect novel. The Booker is considered one of the most prestigious literary awards handed out in this
Jess Kidd s fabulous fourth book sets sail in 1629, aboard the doomed Dutch ship, the Batavia. On board are a crew of malcontented sailors, rich and poor passengers, and nine-year-old Mayken.
When did wealth become the defining element of American success? This Booker-longlisted novel is a multilayered interrogation of ‘the fiction of money’