Nora Gold

In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This flip book is comprised of two novellas:In Sickness and In Health - Lily had epilepsy as a child, so her most cherished goal has always been to be "e;normal"e;. By age 45 she has a "e;normal"e; life, including a family, friends, and an artistic career, and no one, not even her husband, knows the truth about her past. But now some cartoons she drew threaten to reveal her childhood secret and destroy her marriage and everything she has worked so hard for. A moving novella about shame, secrets, disabilities, and the limits and power of love.Yom Kippur in a Gym - Five strangers at a Yom Kippur service in a gym are struggling with personal crises. Lucy can't accept her husband's Parkinson's diagnosis. Ira, rejected by his lover, is planning suicide. Rachel worries about losing her job. Ezra is tormented by a mistake that ruined his career. Tom contemplates severing contact with his sisters. Then a medical emergency unexpectedly throws these five strangers together, and in one hour all their lives are changed in ways they would never have believed possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guernica Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771838665
• Artikelnr.: 72449524

Autorenporträt

Dr. Nora Gold is a prize-winning author, the editor of a prestigious literary journal jewishfiction.net, and a former professor, social worker, and activist. Her most recent book, the novel The Dead Man, was internationally praised, received a Translation Grant from Canada Council for the Arts, and was published in Hebrew. Her previous novel, Fields of Exile, won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. Marrow and Other Stories won a Canadian Jewish Book Award and praise from Alice Munro. Gold's forthcoming book, In Sickness and In Health (two novellas), will be published in 2024 by Guernica Editions.