About the book: Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant, one a successful actor and the other a man young enough to be her son. Who they are to each other shifts in this brilliant novel of structural games of performance and reality.

About the author: In 2010, Kitamura's The Longshot was shortlisted for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2013, her Gone to the Forest was also shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2021, Kitamura's Intimacies was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. In 2025 Kitamura was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.