A New York Times Notable Book 2013 "The novel's comedy beats back the darkness." -- New York Times Book Review "At once wry and poignant." -- New Yorker "Acerbic, compassionate, astonishingly keen, very funny." -- Boston Globe "Extremely funny." -- Wall Street Journal "A daring novella that manages to be funny and wise." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "One of the rare writers who combines art, eccentricity, honesty, and wisdom." -- Chicago Tribune "Both funny and tragic, delightful and dizzingly complex." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Segal's narrative unfolds in snapshot scenes.
The well-crafted and respectfully comedic depictions of the aged grant this book much of its mind and heart." -- Eileen Battersby's Books of the Year 2014, The Irish Times "A dark comedy. Segal grounds her premise in the most real and authentic detail, exposing the impatience and self-interest of families, as they try to discover what is going wrong." -- The Independent (UK) "Biting, irreverant." -- Sunday Times (UK) "An intriguing blend of black farce and modern horror. Ripe with metaphysical resonance and, at times, Segal comes across as a bit like Beckett with a flamboyant sense of humour. Best of all is her prose style." -- Metro (UK) "Segal continues to best the best of them with her light hand and heavy comedy.
" -- Globe and Mail (Canada) "Glorious." -- Maclean's (Canada) "Rare insight into the human character that is at once humbling and shamelessly enjoyable to behold. " -- Publishers Weekly "A masterwork.Both wise and deeply enjoyable." -- Cynthia Ozick, author of Foreign Bodies "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, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy "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, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad "If America had anything resembling a wise elder, or cared to, it would be Lore Segal, and Half the Kingdom would be her moving, blackly-comic revelation." -- Shalom Auslander, author of Hope: A Tragedy "I have never read such an astonishing book about old age. It's remarkable. This woman is one of the best writers I've ever had the privilege of reading." -- Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure "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, author of The News from Paraguay.