We welcome you back to the bookcase. I'm Charlie Gibson.

I'm Kate Gibson.

We're the father and daughter duo, two generations, two perspectives on books.

Today we have one to recommend that I think is really a must for your summer reading.

One of our independent bookstore sellers

called it the Book of the Summer. The name of the book is trust, just simple trust. And the author

is Ernan Diaz, H-E-R-N-A-N-D-A-Z. The book has been out for a couple of months. It has

received stellar responses from book reviewers, and it certainly

did from the two of us. It's a really interesting book. Well, essentially, the book is about a financier

and his wife, but in some ways, the story is told in four different perspectives, four different

self-contained narratives. And this financier and the backdrop of this novel very much has to do with money and

people's relationship with money.

And I think in some ways, the complex and individual relationships with money is a very American concept, don't you think?

Yes, and he writes about that and talks about that in this conversation because he is an immigrant to the United States.

He was born in Argentina, raised in Sweden, when his parents got in some political trouble there.

They went back to Argentina eventually.

He came to the United States, and he has lived most of his life here. But he does say that he is

struck by a sort of singular, idiosyncratic, I guess. Maybe that's not a fair word.

No, I think that is a fair word. A relationship to money. And this novel basically takes place in the turn of the century, in the 1900s.

And, you know, we have said that each book we recommend won't be for everybody.

But we want you just to take a moment and think, well, maybe I'm interested in that one.

This is one that I hope you will do that.

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