"Kitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. I'm not sure there's anyone better writing in America today."--The Guardian

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing M?bius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

Two 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.

Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 04/08/2025
ISBN: 9780593852323
Pages: 208

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2025 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 01/20/2025
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2025