{"product_id":"the-waiting-room-leah-kaminsky","title":"The Waiting Room - Leah Kaminsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling, moving and memorable. Graeme Simsion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/i\u003e captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born in Australia in a Jewish enclave of Melbourne to Holocaust survivors, Dina left behind a childhood marred by misery and the tragedies of the past to build a new life for herself in the Promised Land. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter starting a family of her own, she finds her life falling apart beneath the demands of her eccentric patients, a marriage starting to fray, the ever-present threat of terrorist attack and the ghost of her mother, haunting her with memories that Dina would prefer to leave on the other side of the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeah Kaminsky plumbs the depths of her characters' memories, both the sweet and the heart-wrenching, reaching back in a single climactic day through six decades and across three continents to uncover a truth that could save Dina's sanity – and her life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeah Kaminsky, an award-winning physician and writer, is Poetry and Fiction Editor at the Medical Journal of Australia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her debut novel. It was shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Writing Competition. She conceived and edited Writer MD, a collection of prominent physician-writers, which starred on Booklist and is co-author of Cracking the Code, with the Damiani family. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead Caroline Baum's Review:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeah Kaminsky knows the stress of a doctor’s life: she is one. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is why her debut novel about a pregnant Israeli GP has such an authentic flavour. We're right there with her as she rushes about her duties, haunted by her persistently present but dead mother and living on high alert, ever vigilant for the next terrorist attack. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Waiting Room convincingly conveys all the intensity of Israeli everyday life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRandom House Publishing 2015, paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SJM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44566034251845,"sku":"895","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/the-waiting-room-leah-kaminsky-thewaitingroom-9046656.jpg?v=1769133787","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/the-waiting-room-leah-kaminsky","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}