"Gain "braids together two stories on very different scales. In
one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in
the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence
when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare
& Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in
nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a
half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in
Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the
kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is changed
forever by Clare. The novel's stunning conclusion reveals the
countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and
the smallest lives.
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