EXHIBIT HALL THEATER

Celebrate the U.S. Launch of Hogarth

at the Modern Language Association Annual Conference Join Us
A Conversation with Anouk Markovits and Stephanie Reents
Location: Exhibit Hall Theater, Hall D, Level 2 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA Date/Time: Friday, January 4th, 2:30-3:20pm
Author signings to follow in the Random House booth #308A-310A. Complimentary copies available. Open free to MLA attendees.

I AM FORBIDDEN
A NOVEL By Anouk Markovits
Hogarth | Hardcover | 978-0-307-98473-9 | 320pp. | $25.00 Audio: 978-0-449-01052-5 | $17.50 e-Book: 978-0-307-98475-3 | $12.99

I Am Forbidden is a skillfully told, family saga set in the most insular and fundamentalist sect of Hasidic Jews, the Satmar. Spanning generations, cultures, and continents, from preWorld War II Transylvania to 1960s Paris to contemporary New York, I Am Forbidden traces the collisions between unwavering love, unyielding law, and centuries of tradition.
The wonder of this elegant, enthralling novel is the beauty Ms. Markovits unearths in the Hasidic community she takes us into. Ms. Markovits, bighearted and surprising, tenderly captures the complexities of adulthood for the one who stayed. . . . I Am Forbidden whips by, its extravagant narrative steadily cast with complicated, thoughtful characters. Susannah Meadows, The New York Times ANOUK MARKOVITS was raised in France in a Satmar home, breaking from the fold when she was nineteen to avoid an arranged marriage. She attended Columbia University, Harvard and Cornell. I Am Forbidden is her English-language debut.

THE KISSING LIST

FICTION By Stephanie Reents
Hogarth | Hardcover | 978-0-307-95182-3 | 240pp. | $22.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-95184-7 | $10.99

The interlocking stories in Stephanie Reentss inventive debut collection feature an unforgettable group of young women as their lives connect, first during a year abroad at Oxford, then later as they move to New York on the cusp of adulthood.
Reentss characters are as sharp as they are sly, as intellectually brilliant as they are oddball. These stories are often funny, but theres a satisfying dark edge. . . . Reents weaves the books stories together with humor, grief and slender prose. The New York Times Book Review

Photo John Earle

STEPHANIE REENTSs fiction has been included in the O. Henry Prize Stories, noted in Best American Short Stories, and has appeared in numerous journals. Stephanie has been a Bread Loaf Conference Scholar, a Stegner Fellow, and a Rhodes Scholar. She is an assistant professor at the College of the Holy Cross.

www.HogarthBooks.com

HOGARTH is a new home for a new generation of literary talent. Its list is made up entirely of fiction; its intention is to publish contemporary, voice-driven, character-rich writing that entertains, informs, and moves readers.

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