Kitamura, Katie

This sleek, provocative novel is sure to confound readers; a must for literary collections and for book club discussions.

Few things are more intimate (and terrifying) than the act of being in the world, and Kitamura’s evocative interrogation of our ability to know ourselves and others is reinforced by the strength of her spare, haunting prose.

Like her two previous novels (The Longshot, Gone to the Forest), Kitamura's latest is another tautly austere, intensely internal narrative, both adroitly lyrical and jarring. For readers seeking profound examinations of challenging relationships—think Pamela Erens's Eleven Hours, Jung Yun's Shelter, Ha Jin's Waiting —Kitamura's oeuvre will be a compelling discovery. [See Prepub Alert, 8/8/16.]