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The Short Stack Book Club will meet the third Friday of the month to discuss short novels. This month’s selection is Audition by Katie Kitamura. Audition is a mesmerizing Mobius strip of a 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.

Copies will be held at the circulation desk for check out. Drop-ins are welcomed.