When author Susan Conley learned she had breast cancer, her first instinct was to hide it from her young sons. But in an excerpt from her new memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune, she discovers their bravery is a source of strength.
Susan Conley lived in Beijing for over two years, and returned to Portland, Maine, with her husband and two sons in December 2009. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares; THE FOREMOST GOOD FORTUNE, just published by Knopf, is her first book.