Book Club: Short Stack Book Club

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.