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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 novelThe 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 Storieswon 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.
In this excellent book, the writing always thrusts, compelling readers to see themselves in the characters' frailties of body and soul and to ask themselves the questions of conscience and mortality that these novellas pose with eloquence.--Nomi Eve, author of The Family Orchard and Henna House and Director of the Drexel MFA in Creative Writing Nora Gold's two novellas are full of wry humour and unusual perspectives, all wonderfully conveyed. --Norman Ravvin, author of Who Gets In: An Immigration Story, professor of literature at Concordia University What is so wonderful and compelling about both these novellas is the deep compassion and understanding that Gold has for her characters. With insight and a keen sense of the conflicted, complex, vulnerable, hopeful and yes, beautiful condition of being fully human, both works do the necessary and inspiring work of making vivid what it is to be immersed in self, in consciousness, in relationships, in life itself. --Gary Barwin, award-winning author of Yiddish for Pirates and Nothing the Same Everything Haunted
