The Harvard Square Book Circle - September 2024

Join us as we welcome back The Harvard Square Book Circle! 

The Book Circle is Harvard Book Store's monthly discussion group open for members of the community to meet and discuss a thoughtfully selected book. The September selection is Hernan Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winner, Trust— which will be part of our featured Select 70 for frequent buyer members. Join us for the next meeting of the Harvard Square Book Circle on September 24th from 6–8PM. We're so excited to partner with Faro, one of our favorite cafes in the square, to continue a revamped edition of the Harvard Square Book Circle! 

Location: We're thrilled Faro Café opened their doors and kept the espresso machine on for us! Located at 5 Arrow St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Registration is not required and no commitment is necessary. We love new participants! If you are interested in joining the Book Circle's email list, sign up through this form.

About Trust

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diaz’s Trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.

At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, Trust engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.