Waiting Room

<p><strong><em>The Waiting Room</em> is both haunted and haunting.--Geraldine Brooks Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>March</em></strong></p><p><strong>The Waiting Room <em>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</em></strong></p><p>As 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.</p><p> </p><p>Interlacing the present and the past over a span of twenty-four hours <em>The Waiting Room</em> 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.</p><p> </p>