Books by Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura is the author of The Longshot and Gone to the Forest, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Her third novel, A Separation, about a woman’s quest to track down her estranged husband, is published this month and will be translated into 14 languages. She lives in New York.
“Intimacies opens with an unnamed actress in New York meeting a young man in a restaurant. This eerie encounter with Xavier, who insists she is his mother, sets the tone for the novel’s central tensions. The book unfolds in two mirrored halves, each presenting a distinct version of events that challenge the reader’s perception of truth and memory. Through this dual narrative, the novel carefully examines questions of identity, perception, and the moments that can ripple outward to reshape the understanding of a life. Each half offers its own perspective, inviting the reader to navigate the shifting ground between reality and interpretation.” Read more...
The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Novelist
Interviews with Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature
Love and marriage may go together like a horse and carriage, but what happens when the horses are spooked and the whole procession is run off the road? Katie Kitamura, whose new novel A Separation charts the disastrous—and tragic—failure of a marriage, considers some of literature’s most heartfelt accounts of relationship failure
Interviews where books by Katie Kitamura were recommended
The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year’s Booker Prize panel, about their 2025 shortlist: a varied line-up of six novels, from a work of historical fiction set in a frozen rural England to an experimental ‘Rorschach blot’ of a novel told in two conflicting parts.
