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Audition by Katie Kitamura

Audition

A Novel

by Katie Kitamura
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  • Apr 8, 2025, 208 pages
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Excerpted from Audition by Katia Kitamura. Copyright © 2025 by Katia Kitamura. Excerpted by permission of Riverhead Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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