Tara Ison: 4 books

An “insightful [and] original blend of memoir and film criticism” explores how what we watch shapes our identities (Chicago Tribune). Winner of the PEN Southwest Award for Creative Nonfiction Through ten cleverly constructed essays, author, screenwriter, and passionate film buff...

The List is an irreverent, sophisticated take on the classic breakup story. In fierce and exquisite prose, Tara Ison has written an astonishing story of love and hate. Isabel is finishing medical school and destined to become a brilliant heart surgeon. Al is a video store clerk, a one-hit-wonder...

“Captivating and disturbing” stories from an exciting and original new voice: “Think Mary Gaitskill or Miranda July, but more demented” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Ball explores the darker edges of love and sex and death, how they are intimately and often violently connected, with...

Rockaway Beach, 2001. Sarah, a painter from southern California, retreats to this eccentric, eclectic beach town in the far reaches of Queens with the hopes of rediscovering her passion for painting. Sarah has the opportunity for a real gallery showing if only she can create some new and interesting...