Audition A Novel

Katie Kitamura

eBook - 2025

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZEINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."—NPR“Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.”—The Boston GlobeOne 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 co...mpeting narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance... more