I am not sure how I feel about this book. The messages are good, how money and power "bend and align reality." Also how historically women's stories have been silenced; their importance minimized. But at times I was very bored by this book and didn't want to pick it up. The first section was good, engaging. But then the second section was obviously a retelling of the first but a different angle. So a little "groundhogs day." Ida's story was interesting, I was sort of hoping she would bring some public redemption for Mildred after Andrew passed, but maybe that would have been too unrealistic? People seemed to really like Hernan's first book, In the Distance, so want to check that one out. This book was different, don't know if I loved it, but it's got me continuing to think about it.

Hernan in an interview said this, "Political power is always grounded in economic power – and both rely on the power of narrative for their perpetuation. Women have historically been excluded from partaking in the financial system. It was not until the 1960s in the US and 1975 in the UK that women were allowed to open a bank account in their own name, without their husband or father co-signing on it. The New York Stock exchange admitted its first woman in 1967; the London Stock Exchange followed suit in 1973.

These two examples help understand why there are no women in the great epics of wealth. Those myths are always about a self-made man. And in the vainglorious, manspreading autobiographies of financiers and captains of industry, the women around them are usually confined to the roles of wife and secretary – two stereotypes that Trust aims to subvert. It became pressing to me to address this exclusion and this utter erasure. Misogyny across the ideological spectrum (one of the main characters, an Italian anarchist, embodies a specific kind of ‘revolutionary machismo’) is a central concern of the novel."
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/hernan-diaz-interview-trust