Review: Susan Choi’s 'Trust Exercise' invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence
By Ron Charles Ron Charles Critic, Book World Email Bio Follow Critic, Book World April 4 at 11:29 AM
In fact, as you realize later, he could thrive nowhere else but in that moist terrarium of adolescent desire. He was a vampire thirsty for the fervor of teenage boys and girls. The author Susan Choi. As you’ll learn, she’s a master of emotional pacing: the sudden revelation, the unexpected attack. She’s equally astute at portraying the exaggerated passions of teenage life and the way that youthful energy warps the fabric of reality. “Remember the impossible eventfulness of time,” Choi tells us, “transformation and emotion packed like gunpowder into the barrel. Remember the dilation and diffusion, the years within days.
How cunningly this novel considers the way teenage sexuality is experienced, manipulated and remembered. And no one writes about erotic misadventures with more vicious humor than Choi. She notes that one student’s crotch “trails an olfactory banner like some sort of sticky night flower to inflame jungle bats.” Inside an aggressor’s underpants “a single clammy mushroom thrived.”
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