A perfect life : a novel /
Eileen Pollack
- First edition
- 375 pages ; 22 cm.
First Ecco paperback edition published 2017.--Verso.
Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal. Valentine killed her mother, and she and her freewheeling sister, Laurel, could be genetic carriers; each has a fifty percent chance of developing the disease.
9780062419187 (paperback)
2016591895
Women biologists--Fiction Genetic disorders--Fiction Genetic markers--Fiction Families--Fiction Domestic fiction