{"product_id":"audition-9780593852323","title":"Audition","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Kitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. I'm not sure there's anyone better writing in America today.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaut and hypnotic, \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katie Kitamura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593852323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2025 pg. 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatie Kitamura is the author of four previous novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eA Separation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN\/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46625059274966,"sku":"9780593852323","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/1660\/5398\/files\/img_3f68d31e-8e8d-4367-8dd9-ba441d45180e.jpg?v=1741856864","url":"https:\/\/bookclubonmain.com\/products\/audition-9780593852323","provider":"Book Club On Main","version":"1.0","type":"link"}