Willow Pears is an American teaching in Paris; she spends her spare time helping girls in a refugee center prepare for their immigration hearings. In the process, she finds herself falling in love with human rights attorney Macon Ventri ... but nothing about their story is romantic. From the painf...
It is my habit to not read the cover excerpt of novels; I prefer to just dig in. I was surprised by the setting of Paris Was the Place; surprised in a good way and delighted to read a novel dealing with an issue close to my heart. The plight of immigrants, especially illegal ones first came to my ...
I was really looking forward to reading this book, and I was hoping I would like it, because I will soon be transplanted into Chinese culture/country where I plan to raise my children. My future husband is a native, and I know my children will soon be overtaking my Chinese level by the time they're ...
Loved it! I have always lived in the city that as I was born in so doing something so daring as Susan did was exciting to me. To pick up and move from the U.S. to China for a two-year stint was daring and brave on her part especially with two small children and not knowing the Chinese language. I co...
Susan Conely’s honest and introspective memoir Foremost Good Fortune is a gripping read involving multiple, interconnecting spheres. Covering the time surrounding the Beijing Olympics when she lived in China with her husband and young sons, it’s part travelogue, part chronicle of the expat experien...
Susan Conley's memoir is wonderful. First, it's about China, and then it's about her battle with breast cancer while in China, but throughout, her focus is on Aidan and Thorne, Conley's four and six-year-old boys. Alternately humorous, and tear-jerking. I recommend. [full review]
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