Lauren Foss Goodman is a writer, teacher, mother, hiker, amateur dumpling-maker, and lover of bitter melon. A Heart Beating Hard is her first novel. She endures winter and ravishes summer in western Massachusetts with her husband, Yuchao, and their son, Bodhi.
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