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.
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.
About the Author
Susan Conleyis the author ofLandslide(Knopf, February 2021): “a spectacular tale of hardship and healing. Conley has knocked it out of the park," (Lily King,Writers and Lovers). Susan's previous novelElsey Come Home(Knopf, 2019), was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Amazon Books, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living Magazine, Fodors, The Library Journal, Maine Women’s Magazine, and others.Susanis also the author ofParis Was the Place(Knopf, 2013), an Amazon Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, anElle MagazineReaders Prize Pick, and aPeoplemagazine Top Pick. Susan’s memoir,The Foremost Good Fortune(Knopf 2011), was excerpted in theNew York Times Magazineand the Daily Beast. It was anOprah MagazineTop Ten Pick of the Month, a Slate Magazine “Book of the Week” and a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award. It won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir. Other work of hers has appeared inThe New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post, Ploughshares, The Harvard Reviewand elsewhere.Susan has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. A former faculty member at Emerson College, she has also taught at Colby College and Simmons College. She currently teaches at the University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program, and is the co-founder ofThe Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing lab in Portland, Maine.
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