Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

Audition

Culture / Thurs 12th June / 7:00-8:30 pm

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company

Open to everyone | Booking required

Bar open

“Kitamura’s novels are short, sharp and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today.”—The Guardian

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. A mesmerizing novel that asks who we are to the people we love.

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an elegant and accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, and 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 best. Taut, hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katie Kitamura is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University and  is an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Consortium. Katie Kitamura was born in Sacramento, California in 1979 to a family of Japanese origin, and raised in Davis. Kitamura graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey and later earned a PhD in American literature from the London Consortium with a thesis titled The Aesthetics of Vulgarity and the Modern American Novel (2005). Her work has been translated into over 20 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Jan Michalski and Santa Maddalena Foundations. 

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ADDITIONAL INFO 

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	WHEELCHAIR
Bar open with snacks	Small (10-20)	Available on request