Told through four fictional books—a biographic novel, an unfinished autobiography, a memoir, and a journal—Trust repeatedly examines the life of Andrew Bevel, an early twentieth century stock market billionaire, and his wife Mildred: his prodigious rise as an investor, the couple’s fateful encounter, Mildred’s sudden illness and death, and Andrew’s diminutive fall in stature after his wife’s death. Yet, with each retelling, something new is revealed and even more is obscured. The novel is an ongoing process of myth-making and reinvention, an act even the novel sometimes falls prey to.