Trust Exercise

「這本小說終將成為經典。」──出版家周刊1980年代早期，位於郊區的某間表演藝術學校是當時對藝術抱有熱情的學生們理想中的歸屬，大衛和莎拉正是那年幸運入學的新生，兩人相識後隨即陷入熱戀，周遭的人都注意到了，甚至是連兩人充滿魅力的演員課程指導老師金斯利都注意到了。當原本被兩人拋之腦後的家庭經濟背景、學業壓力開始介入，引起了一連串意料之外的事件，不僅將大衛和莎拉兩人拉進一個分不清真偽的漩渦中，連讀者們也一起跟著故事一路旋轉至最後一個情節的翻轉。作者Susan Choi已出道作The Foreign Student獲得了Asian-American Literary Award小說獎，另二本小說American Woman曾入圍普立茲小說獎，本書挑戰了小說的極限，出版後獲得了許多媒體的讚賞。In their first term at a highly competitive performing arts high school, two students, Sarah and David, fall deeply and obsessively in love. Under the care of Mr. Kingsley, their magnetic and manipulative drama instructor, they and their peers exist in a rarefied bubble, where the boundaries between students and teachers become first dangerously blurred, and then completely broken. The outside world of family and class, academic pressure and the future can't affect them-until it does-and they must deal with the ensuing rejection, rebellion, and heartbreak.Two decades on we learn that what we were told about these teenagers' lives is not completely true, but not completely false, either. The real story is larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime.Captivating and brilliant, Trust Exercise is a novel about the treacherous terrain of adolescence, how we define consent, and what we lose, gain, and never get over as we navigate our way into adulthood's mysterious structures of sex and power.