Book Launch: Katie Kitamura with Tess Gunty

Book Launch: Katie Kitamura presents Audition
In conversation with Tess Gunty
Acclaimed local author Katie Kitamura celebrates the paperback release of Audition—the instant national bestseller, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize—at this pre-publication launch event! One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year; and named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New Yorker, NPR, The New York Public Library, Time Magazine, and many more—Kitamura's Audition is an exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. 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. Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch, joins Kitamura for a reading and discussion before an audience Q&A and signing.

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