In her autobiographical stories, Segal describes the abrupt and violent destruction of the comfortable, loving world of her Viennese childhood, yet her writing has a remarkable buoyancy.
Talking about her most recent story in September, Segal said, 'I am serious and funny. I don't know how to be serious without being funny.'
In 'The Children's Transport,' the ten-year-old narrator is already attuned to irony and wryly self-aware, gently mocking her own desire to be noticed.
Segal explains, 'I did my first writing-I mean writing that understood itself to be writing-when I was ten years old.'
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