“They did not exist except as wives and secretaries-it was enraging and intriguing in equal measure.” Characters and readers alike circle Bevel and the money and social standing that allow him to forge his own myth. “What role did women have in that world?” Diaz asks rhetorically. Ida is secretly conflicted by the origin of her own success, which brings her back, decades later, to the long-dead Bevels. Bevel turns to his secretary, Ida, the daughter of an Italian immigrant, to shape his memoir on the page, a springboard to her own eventual career as a writer. Trust explores the many facets of the enigmatic financier Andrew Bevel and his marriage to Mildred, a secluded spouse with hidden talents. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month With These Reads.
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