Indie Reads Aloud with Nora Gold and "Doubles"
- Diana Kathryn
- 5 days ago
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Indie Reads Aloud Radio
Episode # 314
Doubles
Written by Nora Gold
Doubles takes place in 1968 in an institution for troubled youth, and is told from the perspective of a brilliant, spunky, 12-year-old girl who is obsessed with math. Engagingly written and often funny, this novella explores how a sensitive young teenager changes over a six-month period from a polite, quiet “good girl” into a delinquent.
Although set in the past, Doubles has direct relevance to today, with our recently heightened awareness of the harsh reality in some of our residential institutions during that era (including for Indigenous children, but not only).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Nora Gold is the prize-winning author of six books. Her first book, MARROW AND OTHER STORIES, won a Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award and was praised by Alice Munro. FIELDS OF EXILE won the inaugural Canadian Jewish Literary Award for best novel and was acclaimed by Ruth Wisse and Irwin Cotler. THE DEAD MAN won a translation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. 18: JEWISH STORIES TRANSLATED FROM 18 LANGUAGES, an anthology of translated works, was praised by Publishers Weekly, Cynthia Ozick, and Dara Horn. Gold’s fifth book was comprised of two much-acclaimed novellas: IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH/YOM KIPPUR IN A GYM (two novellas). Her latest book, the novella DOUBLES, was published on May 1, 2026.
In addition, Gold is the founder and editor-in-chief of the prestigious literary journal JEWISH FICTION, which has published 650 works of Jewish-themed fiction, never before published in English, that were originally written in 23 languages.
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