{"product_id":"audition-9780593852323","title":"Audition","description":"\u003cb\u003eNAMED A 2025 \"ESSENTIAL READ\" BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eAND A TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY\u003ci\u003e TIME MAGAZINE \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \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, BOOK RIOT, \u003ci\u003eESQUIRE\u003c\/i\u003e, THE NEW REPUBLIC, KIRKUS, SHELF AWARENESS AND MORE! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51200106823954,"sku":"9780593852323","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ad7305f-4a5b-44f3-a1f0-b998fe5629ca.jpg?v=1774963597","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/audition-9780593852323","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}