"A tale of intoxicating love that turns toxic...  Readers who like their sunniness with a side of bitter will appreciate Ison's portrayal of love's power to bring out the worst in us." 

-  The Chicago Tribune

"The List is both wise and wicked about love: why it lasts or doesn't, and what's to be done about it.  Tara Ison limns her characters' choices with dark precision and wit."
— Meg Wolitzer, author of The Position and The Wife

"The List is visceral, honest, and intensely readable; Ison builds two complex, memorable characters, and then embraces their layers and contradictions, both alone and together."
— Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures

"The List is one fast-paced, word-drunk, film-obsessed, side-splitting roller-coaster:  a screwball comedy, an anti-romance romance, the quintessential LA novel.
Ison is some kind of genius."
— Brad Kessler, author of Birds in Fall

For anyone who has ever broken up with someone...a smart, sophisticated, and darkly comic novel about a dysfunctional couple who make a list of 10 things to do before they break up.

Isabel is finishing medical school and destined to become a brilliant heart surgeon. Al is a video store clerk, a one-hit-wonder director whose first and only film became a cult classic. They have a sisyphean relationship - endlessly coming together and breaking up until they decide to make a list of 10 things they want to do together before they really break up. But after a few perfect dates - clams on the Santa Monica Pier, sleeping under the stars on the roof of a Sunset Boulevard hotel - the list takes a dark turn, and their plan spirals out of control, until they realize they would rather destroy each other than let go....

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