A Perfect Life

by Eileen Pollack

Book Overview

A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love. A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal--Valentine's killed her mother, and she and her freewheeling sister, Laurel, could be genetic carriers; each has a fifty percent chance of developing the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006241917X
• ISBN13: 9780062419170
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"