Escaping the Whale: The Holocaust is over. But is it ever over for the next generation? (New Jewish Fiction)

To everyone who knows her 28-year-old Marcia Gold leads the perfect life. A high school guidance counselor in 1980 Brooklyn New York who specializes in helping pregnant teens Marcia thrives in her work. She also has a handsome successful boyfriend who has won the approval of her Jewish Holocaust-survivor family - no easy feat.However beneath the shiny surface lurks another reality. Plagued by frightening and debilitating panic attacks brought on by her familys wartime legacy and exacerbated by the Iranian hostage crisis in the news Marcia becomes convinced that demons are occupying her closet and her mind. Determined to keep her terrifying secret life a secret Marcia is pushed closer and closer to a breaking point.A series of crises finally forces the explosion Marcia can no longer contain. Desperate to rid herself of her demons she concocts a plan hoping to be reborn as a new person. Unfortunately she discovers that her plan creates its own problems. Can she find another path out of her psychic pain one that will lead her to true normalcy?