Synopsis
Recounts the author's experiences as a member of a family with a genetic tendency toward Huntington's disease, a fatal brain disorder, and their sometimes unorthodox methods of finding a cure. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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About the Author
Alice Wexler has taught at Occidental College and UCLA.
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two stories, the one of her family's emotional odyssey after her mother was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, and the relentless efforts to find the gene and a cure, and the news that she had a 50/50 chance of getting it also. This book comes from her unique position of being both reporter of how scientists sought a cure and someone who could be saved by it.
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