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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Alice Wexler has taught at Occidental College and UCLA.
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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