The Whale Surfaces: Prequel to Escaping The Whale - Couverture souple

Rotkowitz, Ruth

 
9781735575629: The Whale Surfaces: Prequel to Escaping The Whale
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1735575623 ISBN 13 : 9781735575629
Editeur : Okapi Press, 2021

Synopsis

We would all love to believe the idealized fantasy of the innocence and bliss of childhood. A child growing up in a caring home with loving parents should have no problems, right? In The Whale Surfaces, author Ruth Rotkowitz examines the early years in the life of the protagonist she created in her debut novel, Escaping the Whale.

Marcia Gold is the daughter of Holocaust survivors whose lives have been defined by their painful experiences in Europe. A sensitive child, Marcia has absorbed this history as her own, and the Holocaust looms over her childhood like an ever-present cloud. Despite a safe life, Marcia’s childhood is filled with panic and delusions. Her well-meaning, immigrant parents do not know what to make of her.

Marcia realizes early on that her fearful imaginings are upsetting to others. Yet demons are haunting her and she feels them infiltrating her life, making her ‘different.’ No one can understand her sense of alienation and her frightening ‘visions.’ Mortified by them herself, she believes her only hope lies in escaping the scene of her childhood and beginning an independent life. Only then, she concludes, will she vanquish those demons whose tentacles seem to be sliding relentlessly through the inside of her brain, poisoning all that they touch. Marcia’s search for independence is really a search for mental health.

Read after Escaping the Whale, the prequel explains Marcia’s journey to adulthood. Read as a stand-alone, it provides a picture of a child struggling to be ‘normal.’ Marcia Gold, in both books, is waiting to be understood.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ruth Rotkowitz is the author of the novel Escaping the Whale, which explores the issue of inherited trauma. As a child of Holocaust survivors, she has addressed this topic in various works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as well, which have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. She currently conducts book talks for the Phoenix Holocaust Association in Arizona, where she resides.

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Éditeur
Okapi Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1735575623
ISBN 13 
9781735575629
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
102
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