Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies is an amorphous, disquieting novel
The one thing you can say for sure about Kitamura’s wonderfully sly new novel is that it offers a portrait of limbo.
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Leo Robson
Leo Robson is the lead fiction reviewer for the New Statesman.
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