{"product_id":"audition-paperback","title":"Audition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatie Kitamura\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BARACK OBAMA, \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, \u003ci\u003eVOGUE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE LOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE GUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e AND MORE! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE, THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE, AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE AND THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller.\"--NPR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bold, stark, genre-bending, \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e will haunt your dreams.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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.\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Kitamura\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eAudition \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e10 Best Books of 2021, longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN\/Faulkner Award, and a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, fellowships from the Cullman Center and the Lannan Foundation, and many other honors. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 7.99 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48330110730489,"sku":"9780593852347","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/DBBOjaO0r9780593852347.webp?v=1777367128","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/audition-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}