{"product_id":"the-waiting-room-a-novel-isbn-9780062490476","title":"The Waiting Room: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e is both haunted, and haunting.”—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eMarch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Waiting Room \u003cem\u003eunfolds 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\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Dina’s present has always been haunted by her parents’ pasts. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlacing the present and the past over a span of twenty-four hours, \u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlacing the present and the past over a span of twenty-four hours, \u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Vivid, riveting, authentic with emotion and conflict.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJerome Groopman, M.D.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An assured debut.... Compelling, moving and memorable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Potent…. \u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e is both haunted, and haunting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and The Secret Chord\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving and riveting story of a woman perched between the shadow of the past and a fragile reality in her adopted homeland. In the tradition of the finest physician-novelists, Leah Kaminsky writes with precision, authenticity, and profound insight.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Gottlieb, author of The Beautiful Possible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The personal, the political and the medical wrestle with history in this page-turning novel. An engrossing tale that is both acutely worldly and fiercely introspective.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanielle Ofri, MD, author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“She’s an evocative storyteller, and she’s sensitive to the intersections between physical and emotional pain and the way that memory intrudes upon daily reality.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book offers enormous insights into being the child of survivors, but it is also a novel of Israel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJweekly.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] spectacular fiction debut…. A moving psychodrama.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Telegraphic Agency\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Kaminsky] brings to the story so much verisimilitude, so much reality, that we can’t take our eyes off the page. Her descriptions are rich and vibrant . . .  [Kaminsky] is able to weave the surreal throughout her story in such a way that scenes burgeon with timelessness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forward online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Leah Kaminsky is a writer on whom nothing is lost. There are many lives, many worlds, and many days in the single day she depicts in \u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e. The novel is a masterful debut.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kaminsky’s prose is deft and delicate, and this novel tackles the haunting of the Holocaust with a tough and remarkably unsentimental gaze.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMJ Hyland, Man Booker Prizer shortlisted author of Carry Me Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sharp novel…. 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