{"product_id":"9781612193038","title":"Half the Kingdom: A Novel","description":"\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eNo  one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit,  and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound  pleasure. From first  to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel.\u003ci\u003e\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargot Livesey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003eI always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor…. Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both.\u003ci\u003e\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Egan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lore Segal is a marvelous and fearless writer.  No subject is too hard, too absurd, or too painful  for her wise, peculiar and brilliant fiction.” —\u003cb\u003eLily Tuck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe renowned \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ewriter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal—whom \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e declared \"closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel\"—delivers a hilarious, poignant and profoundly moving tale of living, loving and aging in America today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAt Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the looking-glass world of \u003ci\u003eHalf the Kingdom—\u003c\/i\u003ewhere terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents' and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, \"Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction\"—all is familiar and yet slightly askew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' lives—lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER—into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135310643440,"sku":"9781612193038","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612193038_p0.jpg?v=1763844580","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612193038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}