Katie Kitamura, a celebrated novelist, will soon grace Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center for a captivating discussion about her latest work, "Audition." This novel explores the complex interplay of performance art in literature, revealing the unsettling dimensions of middle age and domestic life in a New York City apartment.As a master of horror literature, Kitamura invites readers into a narrative rife with uncertainty, where the notion of identity and familial ties becomes perilously thin.