Audition

AuditionNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BARACK OBAMA, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN AND MORE! FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE, THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE, AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE AND THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A tightly wound

Winston Churchill

Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much—the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany

” —Los Angeles Times

and it's not just my son who's falling

monsters wait in bathroom vents

she dreads going home

a sinister priest the sheep call God

fathers and sons

She opens a bookshop

have some mutually consensual fun

it seems like their neighborhood is in need of some afterschool dog-walkers

Allende for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin