A well-written and moving account of a cancer "previvor" wrestling with her family history during the discovery of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and the development of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer. I perhaps would have been interested in more emphasis on the process of making her de...
She’s fifty-eight. She’s wearing her Thoroughly Modern Millie wig, pageboy style, with bangs. Shiny and dark, with an artificial gleam that suggests vitality. In the airport you can see the wig from way off because it’s the only part of her that looks alive. She’s rail thin and her gait has the s...