Kindle has many advantages, but there is one disadvantage that drives me crazy. I can't flip the pages. When reading Trust by Hernan Diaz, every reader will want to flip back. Trust began with a story about a financier's life.
Then, the reader comes to Book Two. At first, I thought I wasn't reading a novel but maybe short stories? But Book Two refers to the same story as the one the book started with. In Book Two, the financier hires someone to write his memoir, which he plans to use to destroy that first book, in the novel. Ah! Flip back to see.
The problem is that Book One has an unflattering story of the financier's wife. He says it wasn't true. The secretary, who personifies the modifier, meticulous. The secretary realizes that there's three stories. The first book, the view point of the financier, and the woman, herself.
Interestingly, the secretary lives in her own story. Her father is an anarchist. He is a printer and prints out anti-government tracts.
The memoir ends because the financier dies. Afterwards, the secretary ties up the story of her life.
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