Katie Kitamura's most recent novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. It was named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications, translated into 16 languages, and is being adapted for film. Her two previous novels, Gone to the Forest and The Longshot were both finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena, Kitamura has written for publications including the New York Times Book Review, Guardian, BOMB, and Triple Canopy. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.
Intimacies is a novel about the ruthlessness of power, the check of
virtue, and the purportedly neutral bureaucracy meant to mediate
between them. Katie Kitamura is among the most brilliant and
profound writers at work today; she reminds me how high the moral
stakes of fiction can be.
*Garth Greenwell*
The thrill of Intimacies is in the taut precision of its language,
which rings and hums off the page. It's forensic and inquiring, but
also bright and alive. You forget to breathe while reading it, and
feel with each crafted sentence, each building thought, that you're
in the company of a magnificent writer.
*Samantha Harvey*
Katie Kitamura writes about being an outsider like no other author.
Quiet moments are charged with tension and power. In short, the
book is remarkable - beautifully written and intelligent.
*Avni Doshi*
Intimacies is a perfect novel-taut and seductive. Kitamura has made
the existential thriller all her own, and she effortlessly
negotiates the personal and the geopolitical with a complex moral
nuance. Simply stunning.
*Brandon Taylor*
Katie Kitamura's Intimacies - she's an incredible writer. It's
fiction and a really beautiful exploration of how we can live
everyday life while complete horrors and atrocities are happening
in the world - how both things coexist.
*Vogue*
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