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Courtesy of Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Ailsa Chang turned 50 this year. She planned her birthday party “with the intensity of a heat-seeking missile,” determined to prove to the world, and maybe to herself, that she was thrilled about the decade ahead. She still isn’t sure if that was genuine excitement or a