# Gain

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- Book: [Gain](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers/gain) ([Gain.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers/gain.md))
- Authors: [Richard Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-171-2
- Published: 2025-02-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Penetrating and splendidly written... Dazzling' New York Times 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.