Audition

Kitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today -- Alex Preston * Observer *
Kitamura is always worth reading * Evening Standard *
Kitamura . . . has quietly built a reputation as one of America's best contemporary writers * BBC *
Katie Kitamura is a dizzyingly skilled writer, whose fictions always seem to manage two contradictory effects: a supple seductive surface, under which the chaos of minds and repressed realities roil. She’s an original, building an entire metier of her own -- Rachel Kushner
Spare, restrained, taut, disquieting . . . Expertly drawn-out * Washington Post *
You have never read anything like this gorgeously disquieting book. Audition challenges our preconceptions about love, art and selfhood – and, magnificently, our very idea of how a novel should unfold. If all the world’s a stage, Kitamura reminds us that we never stop auditioning for our parts --  Hernan Diaz
Kitamura is a formidable writer. With every chapter of Audition, she pushes at the walls of the novel, remaking it, expanding it, patiently and with gathering force. The result is extraordinary – an elegant, vertiginous work that is completely its own thing -- Chetna Maroo
Katie Kitamura is one of our most brilliant writers, saying far more in her silences, blank spaces and disruptions than most novelists can say in a hundred thousand words -- Lauren Groff
Sublime writing from one word to the next, from the first word to the last -- Roxane Gay
Beguilingly wonderful in its scrutiny of artistic process, ritual and selfhood -- Sara Baume
You won't really know what Audition is about until you read it (and even then, you may have trouble deciding what and who to believe) . . . A sharp exploration of the performances we put on every day * Marie Claire *
Katie Kitamura only writes intense and fascinating novels * Esquire *
An elegant knife of a story . . . In this searing, chilly and psychologically profound story lies insight into some harrowing human questions * Kirkus, starred review *
Katie Kitamura writes with a spare, almost clinical efficiency, but that doesn’t limit the depth of her characters or the complexity of the dynamics she depicts . . . The strange pendulum swing from one scenario to the other catches you off guard – and isn’t that the mark of truly exciting fiction? * Vogue *
Katie Kitamura is among the most brilliant and profound writers at work today -- Garth Greenwell
Written in Kitamura's unshakeably elegant prose, Audition is an emotional, intelligent, intensely stylish novel that reads like walking on quicksand: shocking, eerie, disorienting and utterly immersive. A mesmeric experience. It floored me -- Jenny Mustard
Katie Kitamura is a revelatory interpreter of the human heart, in all its brilliance and obscurity -- Alexandra Kleeman