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The Foremost Good Fortune
by Susan Conley
Review for The Foremost Good Fortune (2/2/2011)
Susan Conley's gripping memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune, about her relocation to China and her battle with cancer--two equally foreign countries she must navigate--has a clarity of voice that is never maudlin. Conley gives us--at a time when we are all curious--both an insider's and an outsider's view of China. I read The Foremost Good Fortune in a white heat--I could not put it down and missed it as I'd miss a friend who had, say, gone to China, when I closed the last page.
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