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"...a moving, suspenseful page-turner that's likely to become a classic of medical storytelling." The Washington PostNew York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw.The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. Are you ready Amanda The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be testedat least, not now. But she had to find out.If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if youd inherited it, would you do it Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolutionnot a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemmafertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. A work of narrative nonfiction, Mercies in Disguise is the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when the medical world abandoned them. Its a story of a family that had to deal with unspeakable tragedy and yet did not allow it to tear them apart. And it is the story of a young womanAmanda Baxleywho faced the future head on, determined to find a way to disrupt her familys destiny. Reading Roundup: Top Picks of the Month MARCH 2017 Indie Next EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid THE STRANGER IN THE WOODS: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel A PIECE OF THE WORLD by The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2017 - Publishers Weekly Drawn from the 14000+ titles in PW's Spring Announcements issue we asked our reviews editors to pick the most notable books publishing in Spring 2017 AXS - Official Tickets and Your Source for Live Entertainment The AXS Cookie Policy This website like most others uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience By continuing to use our website you accept to our
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