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At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf  is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village. When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what's happened to her family and her country with the lies she must tell to keep herself safe. At first, she's bitter about being left behind by her mother, and horrified at having to milk the cow and memorize Catholic prayers for church. But as the years pass and the Occupation worsens, Danielle finds it easier to suppress her former life entirely, and Marie-Jeanne becomes less and less of an act. By the time she's fifteen and there is talk amongst the now divided town of an Allied invasion, not only has Danielle lost the memories of her father's face and the smell of her mother's perfume, but her very self, transforming into a strict Catholic and an anti-Semitic, fervent disciple of fascism. Tara Ison  is the author of the novels  The List ,  A Child out of Alcatraz , and  Rockaway , featured as one of the "Best Books of Summer" in O, The Oprah Magazine. Her essay collection,  Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies , Winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction, and her short story collection  Ball , were both published in 2015 by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. Her short fiction, essays, poetry and book reviews have appeared in  Tin House, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Nerve.com, Black Clock, TriQuarterly, PMS: poemmemoirstory, Publisher's Weekly, The Week magazine, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News , and numerous anthologies. She is also the co-writer of the cult movie  Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead . She is currently Professor of Fiction at Arizona State University. ison will be in conversation with  Susan Coll . is the author of six novels, including  Bookish People  and  The Stager ---a  New York Times  and  Chicago Tribune  Editor’s Choice. Her third novel, Acceptance, was made into a television movie starring the hilarious Joan Cusack. Her work has appeared in publications including the  New York Times Book Review  and the  Washington Post . She was the Director of Events and Programs at Politics and Prose for five years, and is now part of the events team. She is currently the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf  is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village. When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what's happened to her family and her country with the lies she must tell to keep herself safe. At first, she's bitter about being left behind by her mother, and horrified at having to milk the cow and memorize Catholic prayers for church. But as the years pass and the Occupation worsens, Danielle finds it easier to suppress her former life entirely, and Marie-Jeanne becomes less and less of an act. By the time she's fifteen and there is talk amongst the now divided town of an Allied invasion, not only has Danielle lost the memories of her father's face and the smell of her mother's perfume, but her very self, transforming into a strict Catholic and an anti-Semitic, fervent disciple of fascism. Tara Ison  is the author of the novels  The List ,  A Child out of Alcatraz , and  Rockaway , featured as one of the "Best Books of Summer" in O, The Oprah Magazine. Her essay collection,  Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies , Winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction, and her short story collection  Ball , were both published in 2015 by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. Her short fiction, essays, poetry and book reviews have appeared in  Tin House, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Nerve.com, Black Clock, TriQuarterly, PMS: poemmemoirstory, Publisher's Weekly, The Week magazine, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News , and numerous anthologies. She is also the co-writer of the cult movie  Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead . She is currently Professor of Fiction at Arizona State University. ison will be in conversation with  Susan Coll . is the author of six novels, including  Bookish People  and  The Stager ---a  New York Times  and  Chicago Tribune  Editor’s Choice. Her third novel, Acceptance, was made into a television movie starring the hilarious Joan Cusack. Her work has appeared in publications including the  New York Times Book Review  and the  Washington Post . She was the Director of Events and Programs at Politics and Prose for five years, and is now part of the events team. She is currently the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf  is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village. When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what's happened to her family and her country with the lies she must tell to keep herself safe. At first, she's bitter about being left behind by her mother, and horrified at having to milk the cow and memorize Catholic prayers for church. But as the years pass and the Occupation worsens, Danielle finds it easier to suppress her former life entirely, and Marie-Jeanne becomes less and less of an act. By the time she's fifteen and there is talk amongst the now divided town of an Allied invasion, not only has Danielle lost the memories of her father's face and the smell of her mother's perfume, but her very self, transforming into a strict Catholic and an anti-Semitic, fervent disciple of fascism. Tara Ison  is the author of the novels  The List ,  A Child out of Alcatraz , and  Rockaway , featured as one of the "Best Books of Summer" in O, The Oprah Magazine. Her essay collection,  Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies , Winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction, and her short story collection  Ball , were both published in 2015 by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. Her short fiction, essays, poetry and book reviews have appeared in  Tin House, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Nerve.com, Black Clock, TriQuarterly, PMS: poemmemoirstory, Publisher's Weekly, The Week magazine, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News , and numerous anthologies. She is also the co-writer of the cult movie  Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead . She is currently Professor of Fiction at Arizona State University. ison will be in conversation with  Susan Coll . is the author of six novels, including  Bookish People  and  The Stager ---a  New York Times  and  Chicago Tribune  Editor’s Choice. Her third novel, Acceptance, was made into a television movie starring the hilarious Joan Cusack. Her work has appeared in publications including the  New York Times Book Review  and the  Washington Post . She was the Director of Events and Programs at Politics and Prose for five years, and is now part of the events team. She is currently the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.