"In this riveting novel of madcap adventure, a woman named Bea leaves New York City for Utah, where her mother lives. Bea has recently been fired from her finance job and is recovering from the end of a romance-upheavals that, she feels, she can't tell her mother about. When she arrives, she learns that her mother has also been keeping something to herself: she has become a devotee of the Conversation, an online forum about finding a treasure allegedly worth a million dollars."
"When Claire, the protagonist of this tender portrait of terminal illness, decides to stop cancer treatment and spend her remaining time in hospice, her husband, Eliot, assumes that he will be the one to care for her-just as he has since her diagnosis, eight years earlier. He is shocked when she tells him that she would rather be looked after by two of her best friends, in an environment "full of female energy, chatter, tears, laughter.""
A woman named Bea leaves New York City for Utah after losing her finance job and ending a romance, only to discover her mother has become involved in an online hunt for a million-dollar treasure. Mother and daughter embark on the hunt together, encountering dangerous characters, harsh weather, break-ins, injury, and death, with the quest becoming a search for identity for each woman. Another story follows Claire, who chooses hospice over further cancer treatment and asks two friends rather than her husband to care for her, forcing him to confront caregiving inadequacies. A third work surveys literature, history, and theology to argue for Africa's influence on Europe's self-conception.
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