With an astute eye, Nora Gold writes with depth and emotion. Her novellas, Yom Kippur in a Gym and In Sickness and In Health, delve the inner workings of the human heart. Her writing reminds us that we're all fallible beings, and her characters are living, breathing entities that reach out and touch our souls. —Faye Kellerman is the author of the best-selling Decker/Lazarus mystery series; her latest book is The Hunt.

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

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 great 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 teaches literature at Concordia University; his latest book is Who Gets In: An Immigration Story.