A Separation by Katie Kitamura is a small, taut, suspenseful novel about a woman who has been separated from her cheating husband for six months, but his parents don’t know. Then he goes missing in a small town in Greece and she is called upon to go look for him.

As the novel slowly unfolds, Kitamura’s power to draw the reader in with her almost hypnotic prose is on full display. An undeniably smart, well written book, yet also forgettable.