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Audition: A Novel Audiobook
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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 that 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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"“[An] elegant knife of a story. . . So much glints below the surface in [Kitamura’s] purring, pared-down sentences. . .In this searing, chilly, and psychologically profound story lies insight into some harrowing human questions."
— Kirkus, starred review
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“A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller.”
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“Traci Kato-Kiriyama’s magnetic performance of this penetrating psychological study is a wonder to hear.”
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Spare, restrained, taut, disquieting… Expertly drawn-out.
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Kitamura serves up a taut and alluring novel…complex and engrossing…Readers won’t be able to put this down.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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A Slate Magazine Pick of Best Audiobooks of 2025
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A Washington Post Best Book of 2025
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A Time Magazine Book of the Year
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An Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year
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A Marie Claire Magazine Pick of 2025's Best Books
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About Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura is an award-winning author of several novels, including A Separation, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. It was named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications and translated into sixteen languages. Her two previous novels, Gone to the Forest and The Longshot, were both finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena Foundation, she has written for publications including the New York Times, London Guardian, Granta, Bomb Magazine, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.