A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

"A lucidly written, highly evocative memoir."
-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Winesburg, Ohio, meets the Age of Aquarius."
-Susan Cheever, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An intelligent and vivid memoir of what it was like to be literally a child of the 60's."
-New York Times Book Review

"Michaels has given voice to a generation that has gone without a spokesman."
-Chicago Tribune

"Reading Split, one remembers what it felt like to be a child and to have the world open itself up, to have the richness of the past inform the choices of each day. And that, in itself, is no small gift."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"Michaels offers a rare glimpse of a life that embodies a time."
-Vogue

"Neither self-pitying nor judgmental, Michaels gives us a vivid sense of the times through which she has lived. Split is a moving account of how we grow up and establish our own identities by learning to navigate the fine line between loyalty and independence."
-Francine Prose, People

"Michaels trains a clear and loving eye on the era that shaped the people who shaped her."
-Glamour

"She has recorded her second-generation experiences of counterculture life and its often puzzling bequest with balance and wonder, but it is her voice that captivates. Attentive and direct, Michaels writes clean and functional prose, and it is this gift, which she attributes to her mother, 'the love of naming how it was,' that makes this such an entrancing self-portrait."
-Booklist

"Her exploration of the subtleties and complexities of family dynamics is unflinchingly honest and, at times, breathtakingly insightful."
-Publishers Weekly

"An excellent portrait of the product of a unique generation. Highly recommended."
-Library Journal

"A disarmingly amiable reminiscence."
-The Atlantic Monthly