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 KIRKUS SHELF AWARENESS AND MORE! ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S
FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR
FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE INSTANT 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 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.
