
Audition
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Traci Kato-Kiriyama
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By:
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Katie Kitamura
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“A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."—NPR
“Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.”—The Boston Globe
One 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.
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.
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Critic reviews
“Slick, sharp, strange and singular. I love [Kitamura’s] work; she’s a writer who can conjure intrigue from the scantest detail, and you’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath.”
—Samantha Harvey in The Guardian
"[A] taut, keenly observed take on the roles we play. . . worthy of a standing ovation."—People
"A deftly crafted, slow-burn psychological thriller full of sly metafictional reflections on the nature of storytelling and identity.”—The Washington Post
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