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Audition

Katie Kitamura

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Audition was named a 2025 "Essential Read" by The New Yorker and a top 10 book of the year by Time Magazine and Publishers Weekly, named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, The New Yorker, NPR, the New York Public Library, Vogue, Time Magazine, Marie Claire, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Book Riot, Esquire, The New Republic, Kirkus, and Shelf Awareness, was one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year, and was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, named a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 2026 Gotham Book Prize, and longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. 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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Publisher
Fern Press
Year
2026
ISBN-13
9780593852347
Genre
FictionCrime & Thriller
Topics
Identity and performanceFamily secretsPsychological ambiguityMotherhoodTruth and deception

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