{"product_id":"9781612193922","title":"Half the Kingdom: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eAt once wry and poingnant.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterwork...Both wise and deeply enjoyable.\" —Cynthia Ozick, author of \u003ci\u003eForeign Bodies\u003c\/i\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041953792240,"sku":"9781612193922","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612193922_p0.jpg?v=1763843214","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612193922","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}