{"product_id":"half-the-kingdom-a-novel-9781612193021","title":"Half the Kingdom: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHalf the Kingdom: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Segal, Lore. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781612193021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York Times Notable Book 2013\n\n\"No 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.\" —Margot Livesey\n\n\"I 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.\" —Jennifer Egan\n\n“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.” —Lily Tuck\n\nThe renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal—whom The New York Times 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\n\nAt Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimers 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?\n\nIn the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom—where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents and their grown childrens 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.\n\nLore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters lives—lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedars ER—into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977903632437,"sku":"ByrdShop_1612193021","price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781612193021_bff143d9-c806-4dce-973a-145ba934f9ca.jpg?v=1778788139","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/half-the-kingdom-a-novel-9781612193021","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}