{"product_id":"the-foremost-good-fortune-the-foremost-good-fortune-a-memoir-9780307739865","title":"The Foremost Good Fortune: The Foremost Good Fortune: A Memoir","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan 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 \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and has led creative writing seminars at Emerson College in Boston. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and other literary magazines. She is currently working on a novel and settling back into life in the States.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460099477778,"sku":"9780307739865","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0fd38a30-b82b-4c2f-8082-6d018d383e44.jpg?v=1730026979","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-foremost-good-fortune-the-foremost-good-fortune-a-memoir-9780307739865","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}