Breakfast & Book Club with Susan Choi

We’re thrilled to bring National Book Award-winning author Susan Choi to Chicago for an intimate breakfast, book discussion, and signing. You can enjoy coffee, hot tea, juice, fruit, and a breakfast selection while Susan and your peers discuss her novel Trust Exercise. Here’s a little about it:

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed—or untoyed with—by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.

The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school’s walls—until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true—though it’s not false, either. It takes until the book’s stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place—revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence.

As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.

With a limited attendance capacity, this will be a rare opportunity to chat with Susan Choi about her work, as well as get to know fellow fans and readers in Chicago. You are welcome to bring copies of your Choi books to the event, and copies will also be for sale on-site.

This event will be held at one of our Board member’s homes in Lincoln Park. The event will begin at 9:30am on Friday, September 20, and end at 11:30am. Coffee, tea, juice, fruit, and assorted breakfast items will be available. For tickets, visit: https://www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/tickets/breakfast-book-club-with-susan-choi/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

StoryStudio Chicago, 4043 North Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, United States