TY - BOOK AU - Pollack,Eileen TI - A perfect life: a novel SN - 9780062419187 (paperback) AV - PS3566 O4795 P47 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - New York, NY PB - Ecco KW - Women biologists KW - Fiction KW - Genetic disorders KW - Genetic markers KW - Families KW - Domestic fiction KW - English fiction, American N1 - First Ecco paperback edition published 2017.--Verso N2 - 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 ER -