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Grace Hoffmeier travels to China with her husband, Walter, for the 1986 Beijing International Conference, where she falls out of love with him and in love with Chinese culture
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Andrea Barrett is the author of Archangel, The Air We Breathe, Servants of the Map (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Voyage of the Narwhal, Ship Fever (winner of the National Book Award), and other books. She teaches at Williams College and lives in northwestern Massachusetts.
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The Beijing of 1986 serves as the backdrop for this affecting novel about an American woman's self-discovery. At 30, Grace has succumbed to a type of emotional paralysis. Buried in fat, unwilling to face the past and incapable of imagining her own future, she chalks up a string of failures: abandoned schools and careers, one divorce and a precarious marriage to Walter, a scientist. Accompanying Walter to a conference in Beijing, Grace is jolted out of her complacency as she is befriended by a Chinese woman, a doctor. A severe bout of pneumonia lands her in the hospital, attended by her new friend, and in her feverish state she relives the sorry episodes that have temporarily defeated her. Her illness, paradoxically, cures her, and she finds the courage to embrace an entirely new life. Barrett ( Lucid Stars ) here recreates not China itself but, more reasonably, her heroine's fascination with it, and she manages to infuse her characters, Grace especially, with a psychic energy and charm that belie their saddened states. Literary Guild alternate.
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- PublisherPocket Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0671729608
- ISBN 13 9780671729608
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages279
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