Audition

Katie Kitamura’s Audition is an elegant, taut novel about performance — both on stage and in life. The narrator, a professional actor, becomes entangled in a high-stakes production where art, politics, and personal relationships collide. Kitamura examines the masks we wear, the roles we play, and the cost of authenticity. Her prose is restrained yet charged, revealing as much in what is unsaid as in what is spoken. Audition is as much about the performance of identity as it is about the theater, offering a layered meditation on truth and artifice.