{"id":41535,"date":"2016-12-08T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=41535"},"modified":"2016-12-08T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:04:57","slug":"separation-katie-kitamura-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/separation-katie-kitamura-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Separation by Katie Kitamura [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/12\/Separation-by-Katie-Kitamura-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-537x800.jpg\" alt=\"separation-by-katie-kitamura-on-bookdragon-via-library-journal\" width=\"537\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/12\/Separation-by-Katie-Kitamura-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-537x800.jpg 537w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/12\/Separation-by-Katie-Kitamura-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-768x1143.jpg 768w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/12\/Separation-by-Katie-Kitamura-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-800x1191.jpg 800w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/12\/Separation-by-Katie-Kitamura-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough separated from philandering husband Christopher for six months, a London woman agrees to continue to postpone &#8220;the process\u2026of telling people.&#8221; Almost a month has passed since she last talked to Christopher, rendering her unable to answer his mother Isabella&#8217;s unexpected request for his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>She travels to Greece at Isabella&#8217;s insistence, arriving at the hotel where her errant spouse has a room, only to learn he&#8217;s traveling. Her wait for his return amid strangers who have known him more recently, more intimately, has shocking results. Between an anniversary-celebrating couple flaunting their passion to an elderly woman who is a rare professional funereal &#8220;weeper,&#8221; the woman confronts the disintegration of love: &#8220;perhaps wife and husband and marriage itself are only words that conceal much more unstable realities, more turbulent than can be contained in a handful of syllables, or any amount of writing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like her two previous novels (<em>The Longshot, Gone to the Forest<\/em>), <a href=\"http:\/\/katiekitamura.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Katie Kitamura<\/a>\u2019s latest is another tautly austere, intensely internal narrative, both adroitly lyrical and jarring. For readers seeking profound examinations of challenging relationships \u2013 think Pamela Erens&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/eleven-hours-pamela-erens-library-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Eleven Hours<\/em><\/a>, Jung Yun&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/shelter-jung-yun-library-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shelter<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author-interview-ha-jin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ha Jin<\/a>\u2019s <em>Waiting<\/em> \u2014 Kitamura&#8217;s oeuvre will be a compelling discovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2016-12-01-9945672.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, December 1, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Although separated from philandering husband Christopher for six months, a London woman agrees to continue to postpone &#8220;the process\u2026of telling people.&#8221; 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