Audition

Kitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. I'm not sure there's anyone better writing in America today.--The Guardian nOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. n nTwo people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young--young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day - partner, parent, creator, muse - and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately. n nTaut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best. nA tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller.--NPR n nBold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.--The Boston Globe n nOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. n nTwo people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young--young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day - partner, parent, creator, muse - and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately. n nTaut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.n