Gain

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From Pulitzer Prize-winning and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>bestselling author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Overstory</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Richard Powers's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gain </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>braids together two stories on very different scales.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(233 236 239 0.62); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gain</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(233 236 239 0.62)>'s stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.</span></p>