Unraveling Fate: The Remarkable Story of Love vs. Genetic Destiny in Tiffany Graham Charkosky’s Latest Book
But it is also a love letter to us, her readers, offering us a glimpse into a world of uncertainty and ambiguity. A world where each of her family members must decide for themselves how to use the information her father shares one day: that her uncle had testing during his cancer treatment that revealed a gene mutation that potentially places the entire family at risk for certain cancer diagnoses.
Tiffany may or may not have the same gene.
This information isn’t known or suspected when the author is 11 years old and loses her mother to colon cancer. All she knows at that point, with searing certainty and wobbly per-adolescent wisdom, is that her mother is gone forever. (“So keen was my need for a silver lining, I made this loss into my superpower…the notion that I was operating on a different level carried me through the chaos of my grief.”)
Post Comment