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Fantastic Beasts star Katherine Waterston narrates Katie Kitamura’s moody novel, A Separation.

When she agreed to do the audiobook, I was completely thrilled.

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Funnily enough, Waterston actually considers Kitamuraherinspiration for the narrators voice.

She has a very heightened, posh kind of accent that you really dont hear too much anymore.

Announced last week, the actressbought the film rightsto Kitamuras novel and is already attached to star.

So I just got the rights [toA Separation]!

And Ive been getting a lot of jealous emails from people who wish that they had done it first.

Below, listen to an exclusive clip fromA Separation.The novel is availablein print and audioon Feb. 7.