Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen is the author of The Liar and Wak­ing Lions, which won the Jew­ish Quar­ter­ly – Wingate Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and has been pub­lished in sev­en­teen coun­tries. She is a clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist, has worked for the Israeli civ­il rights move­ment, and is an award-win­ning screen­writer. She won Israel’s pres­ti­gious Sapir Prize for best debut.