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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a
visionary novel about the failings of the American dream. ''It''s not
possible for powers to write an uninteresting book'' Margaret Atwood In
Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate
agent, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has cancer.
This same small town is home to Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun
by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston. Over the course of more
than a century, it transforms into a powerful international corporation.
Clare & Company''s stunning growth reflects America''s kaleidoscopic history,
yet for Laura and her family, this wild success has profound and lasting
consequences. ''Penetrating and splendidly written… Dazzling'' New York
Times
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