A Separation:
A Novel
by Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books
$25.00 List Price
The cagey narrator of Katie Kitamura’s new novel, A Separation, is an unnamed woman who has recently separated from her unfaithful husband, Christopher. He has asked her to keep the split a secret. When Christopher stops returning his mother’s phone calls while traveling in Greece, the narrator is enlisted to go find him, feeling she has no choice but to make the trip. She travels to the small village where he was staying and pretends to perform her wifely duties as she searches for her husband, all the while planning to ask for a long-overdue divorce. Even though Christopher exists only as a memory for most of the book, he remains one of its most active characters. Every relationship in the story, including the mother and wife—and even peripheral encounters, like between the narrator and the hotel staff—is organized
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