The Foremost Good Fortune: The Foremost Good Fortune: A Memoir - Paperback
by Susan Conley
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307739865ISBN-10:307739864UPC:9780307739865Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Health & Fitness, TravelBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Diseases & Conditions, AsiaBook Topic:Cancer, EastSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCJYTDHTYE
When Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons leave their house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, they are prepared to weather the inevitable onslaught of culture shock. But the challenges of living and mothering in an utterly foreign country become even more complicated when Susan learns she has cancer. After undergoing treatment in Boston, she returns to Beijing, again as a foreigner--but this time, it's her own body in which she feels like a stranger. Set against the eternally fascinating backdrop of modern China and full of insight into the trickiest questions of motherhood, this poignant memoir is a celebration of family and a candid exploration of mortality and belonging.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307739865ISBN-10:307739864UPC:9780307739865Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Health & Fitness, TravelBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Diseases & Conditions, AsiaBook Topic:Cancer, EastSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCJYTDHTYE
Susan Conley lived in Beijing for more than two years, and returned to Portland, Maine, with her husband and two sons in December 2009. She is cofounder and executive director of the Telling Room, a writers' workshop and literary hub for the region. She was an associate editor at Ploughshares and has led creative writing seminars at Emerson College in Boston. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine as well as The Paris Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and other literary magazines. She is currently working on a novel and settling back into life in the States.
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