Katherine Nouri Hughes

While We Were Waiting

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Produktbeschreibung

A vibrant novel that portrays the lives of an American woman fleeing the trauma of abuse in her childhood and an Iraqi refugree fleeing the trauma of war, each in the midst of childbirth, that Joyce Carol Oates praises as” breathtaking, heartrending, and finally uplifting” and Richard Ford exclaims “involved me so thoroughly that I began to anticipate how it would end.” Lorraine and Will, New Yorkers married for 15 years, are having their first baby, via IVF. They are 40, successful in their careers—finance and music—with pasts that have held each of them back from one another until the day While We Were Waiting unfolds: the day in the middle of Lorraine’s sixth month when she is rushed to the high-risk obstetrics unit of Met U Hospital. Over the next hours Lorraine and Will, individually, are compelled to face themselves and their pasts in ways they’d never thought possible. Into the waiting room where Will struggles with his present and past enters Clement, an archeologist, newly arrived in America—fleeing ISIS in Iraq, plagued by the memories of a terrorist attack, the husband of another patient making his own sense of the extremes that prevail with high-risk births. The agony of this waiting husband stems as much from his own traumatic circumstances as from fear for his wife and unborn child. As the space shared by Will and Clement expands with every hour and revelation. Lorraine’s labor compels her to let go of the terrible harm done to her as a child, making While We Were Waiting a story about the power of acceptance and the resilience of love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Delphinium Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 25mm
• ISBN-13: 9781953002747
• ISBN-10: 1953002749
• Artikelnr.: 74804545

Autorenporträt

Katherine Nouri Hughes is an American writer of Iraqi-Irish descent. Kate was educated at Princeton (MA Near Eastern Studies), has lived in Cairo and traveled extensively in the region. She is the author of The Mapmaker's Daughter, a novel published by Delphinium Books. She’s had careers as a communications executive in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors and currently serves as a trustee of WNET/Thirteen (the PBS flagship station) and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Her two daughters are Caitlin Hughes and Johanna Hunsbedt - who is the mother of beloved Oliver and Audrey. Kate is the widow of Robert Del Tufo who was Attorney General and United States Attorney for New Jersey. She lives in Princeton and New York City