{"product_id":"half-the-kingdom-9781612193922","title":"Half the Kingdom","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe renowned \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ewriter and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lore 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \u003cb\u003e--Jennifer Egan, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melville House Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612193922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.21h x 6.05w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2014 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lore Segal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43673017286837,"sku":"9781612193922","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_71630405-2f4a-43cd-afd1-82b26b536949.jpg?v=1709052945","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/half-the-kingdom-9781612193922","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}