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Leah Kaminskyโs powerful fiction debutโa multi-generational novel perfect for fans of The Tigerโs Wife and A Constellation of Vital Phenomenaโunfolds over a day in the life of a young physician in contemporary Israel, who must cope with modern threats in the shadow of her parentsโ horrific wartime pasts.A young doctor in Haifa, Israel, must come to terms with her familyโs painful pastโand its lingering aftermathโas the conflict between Palestine and Israel reaches its height and the threat of a terrorist attack looms over the city....
Born to two survivors in the smoky after-haze of WWII, Dina has never been able to escape her parentsโ history. Tortured by memories of Bergen-Belsen, her mother leaves Dina to inherit her decades of trauma.
Dina desperately anchors herself in familyโa cherished young son, a world-weary husband, and a daughter on the wayโand her work as a doctor, but she is struggling to cope, burdened by both the very real anxieties of her daily life and also the shadows of her parentsโ ghosts, who follow her wherever she goes. A witty, sensitive narrator, she fights to stay grounded in the here-and-now, even as the challenges of motherhood and medicine threaten to overwhelm her.
In taut, compelling prose, The Waiting Room weaves between Dinaโs exterior and interior lives, straddling the present and the pastโand building towards a profoundly dramatic climax that will remind readers of the fragility of human life even as it reassures them of the inescapable power of love and family. ISBN:9780062490476
