The Foremost Good Fortune
Author: CONLEY, SUSAN
ISBN: 9780307739865
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Mar 2012
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
Susan Conley's The Foremost Good Fortune is a fascinating--and most of all, honest--memoir about both her family's struggles to start a new life in China and how they are compounded when she is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
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.
ISBN: 9780307739865
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Mar 2012
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
Susan Conley's The Foremost Good Fortune is a fascinating--and most of all, honest--memoir about both her family's struggles to start a new life in China and how they are compounded when she is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
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.
