Leah Kaminsky

The Waiting Room

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Waiting Room unfolds over the course of a single life-changing day, but the story it tells spans five decades, three continents, and one family's compelling history of love, war, and survival. As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Dina's present has always been haunted by her parents' past. She becomes a doctor, emigrates, and builds a family of her own, yet no matter how hard she tries to move on, their ghosts keep pulling her back. A dark, wry sense of humor helps Dina maintain her sanity amid the constant challenges of motherhood and medicine, but when a terror alert is issued in her adopted city, her coping skills are pushed to the limit. Interlacing the present and the past over a span of twenty-four hours, The Waiting Room is an intense exploration of what it means to endure a day-to-day existence defined by conflict and trauma, and a powerful reminder of just how fragile life can be. As the clock counts down to a shocking climax, Dina must confront her parents' history and decide whether she will surrender to fear, or fight for love.

Produktdetails

• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780062490476
• ISBN-10: 0062490478
• Artikelnr.: 44673869

Autorenporträt

Leah Kaminsky is poetry and fiction editor at the Medical Journal of Australia. She conceived and edited Writer, M.D., an anthology of contemporary doctor-writers. She is the author of We're All Going to Die, the award-winning poetry collection Stitching Things Together, and collaborated on the number one Amazon bestseller Cracking the Code. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.