The Family Gene

A “surprisingly buoyant” memoir about “how it feels to face the likelihood of a shortened life . . . reminds us that hope ‘isn’t the same thing as truth’” ( New Yorker ). When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors discovered a deadly blockage in her liver. Struggling to find an explanation for her unusual condition, Joselin compared the medical chart of her father—who had died from a mysterious disease, ten year