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Award-Winning Author to Give Reading From Her Acclaimed Memoir at Westminster School

Award-winning author Susan Conley will read from her acclaimed memoir, “The Foremost Good Fortune,” on May 22 as a part of Westminster School’s Readings Series. (She previously had been scheduled to read last Nov. 4 but was rescheduled due to the October snowstorm.) The series features readings given by guest writers and Westminster students on selected evenings during the academic year. The student reader will be senior Will Stevens, one of the winners of the Senior English “This I Believe” Writing Contest.

“The Foremost Good Fortune” has emerged as one of the most talked about cancer stories of the last year.  It chronicles Conley’s move to Beijing in 2007 with her family, a cross-cultural odyssey through modern China and her experience of breast cancer there. O, The Oprah Magazine, listed it as a top 10 pick in February 2011, Slate Magazine chose it as book of the week in March 2011, and the Washington Post called it “a beautiful book about China and cancer and how to be an authentic, courageous human being.”

Conley is an accomplished speaker, who has been invited to more than 40 national and international cancer centers, colleges and bookstores since “The Foremost Good Fortune” was released last year.

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The Westminster School reading is free and open to the public and will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the Armour Academic Center. The school is located at 995 Hopmeadow St. in Simsbury. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the reading and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to the Armour Academic Center. 

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