Audition by Katie KitamuraMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
"I was used to people armed with tremendous will, I was frequently with people whose job consists of imposing their reality upon the world."
First of the Booker 2025 reads done and whoa, what a good start!
AUDITION is in two parts. The book is basically two different novellas, each featuring the same trio of characters, but changing in relation to one another.
We have the aging actress, her writer husband, and a mysterious young man, magnetic and beautiful.
It's a wonderfully written novel full of sharp observations and insights into relationships, the tells and minutiae of behavior that reveal the pecking order in our social lives. Kitamura writes unbelievably detailed yet piercing sentences on the power dynamics and interplay of desires that make up human interaction.
It's a reminder on how the quality of our existence depends on how we are treated by others, and how we are complicit in the narratives people tell of themselves. For in the telling of their stories, ours, too, is given meaning.
"What was a family if not a shared delusion, a mutual construction?"
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