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In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym Nora Gold

In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym By Nora Gold

In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym by Nora Gold


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In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym Summary

In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym by Nora Gold

This flip book features two separate novellas: In Sickness and In Health: Lily's most cherished goal in life has always been to be "normal," so as an adult she has painstakingly constructed a "normal" life for herself, with family, friends, and career. But her need to keep hidden her invisible disability, due to its stigma and her shame, now threatens to destroy everything she has worked so hard for. Yom Kippur in a Gym: Five isolated strangers in a synagogue on Yom Kippur a day of intense reflection and soul-searching are each struggling with a major personal crisis, when unexpectedly they are thrown together by an emergency that, in one hour, changes all their lives forever.

About Nora Gold

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.

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NGR9781771838658
9781771838658
1771838655
In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym by Nora Gold
New
Paperback
Guernica Editions,Canada
2024-05-31
200
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