Narrated by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your novel about?

Somebody Else’s Life intertwines the personal histories of a convicted cold war spy, an East German intelligence officer who sets her up for entrapment, and the son of Holocaust survivors who takes her in following her release from prison. Themes of place and betrayal weave through the narrative, which involves echoes of the Spanish Civil War, the Shoah, the founding of the Village of Goose, spiritual cults, drug running cartels, and The World Trade Center on 9/11.

2. What genres would you say this story is in?

Somebody Else’s Life sits at the intersection between literary fiction and a book-club beach read.

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

History Rhymes.

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

The Big Lebowski

5. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)

Hashkvieinu, the lullaby that’s part of the Sabbath liturgy on Friday nights.

6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?

American Pastoral, Philip Roth

7. What motivated you to write this story?

It needed to get out.

8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Chaim Rumkowski

9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

U.S. History, the Spanish Civil War, worker rights

10. What influenced you to enter your story to get performed?

Curious as to how it sounds in somebody else’s voice..

11. Any advice or tips you'd like to pass on to other writers?

None.