The Foremost Good Fortune: A Memoir

by Susan Conley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307739864
• ISBN13: 9780307739865
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"