Audition

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, 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 most intimately.