The Whale Surfaces: Prequel to Escaping The Whale - Softcover

Rotkowitz, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735575623 ISBN 13: 9781735575629

Verlag: Okapi Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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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Ruth Rotkowitz is a second-generation child - the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Austria. This has informed much of her research and writing. She has published fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in a variety of anthologies and literary journals, and was a staff writer and member of the editorial board of the (now-defunct) Woman's Newspaper of Princeton, winning awards for many of her feature articles. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and has taught English on both the college and high school levels. She currently leads book talks in the Phoenix, Arizona area, where she lives with her husband.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Okapi Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1735575623
• ISBN 13: 9781735575629
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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