The Foremost Good Fortune: The Foremost Good Fortune: A Memoir

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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/06/2012
ISBN: 9780307739865
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.74d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 02/24/2012 pg. 81