Her First American A Novel

"[A] highly original mixture of drollery and catastrophe. . . . Her First American sneaks up on you. What begins as the comic adventures of a greenhorn ends up distilling the ironies and poignancies of Jewish-Black relations in America."
-The New York Times Book Review

"A wonderful novel . . . Her First American is boldly comic and full of startling scenes-to read it is to be exhilarated. It's also the kind of incredibly rich book that can make a reader pause and examine his beliefs about racism, religion, the Three Stooges, and most of all-America the amazing."
-People

"Charm, warmth, humor, and a completely unsentimental compassion are exactly what Segal provides in this bittersweet, idiosyncratic love story. . . . A truly original novel."
-Newsday

"A quiet, funny, slyly affecting novel-one that always remains under delicate control while seeming to teeter on the edge of preciousness or sentimentality."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Segal's best book. . . . A complex, funny, plangently sorrowful Pygmalion story."
-The Wall Street Journal