Unraveling Fate: The Remarkable Story of Love vs. Genetic Destiny in Tiffany Graham Charkosky’s Latest Book
While this new information goes a long way toward explaining a family whose members have died at remarkably young ages, it also sends the author on a journey of uncertainty and impossible choices: whether or not to get tested for the gene that caused her mother’s cancer death, whether to try to have a second child and when, and should certain at-risk organs be removed and at what age. Her siblings have the same decisions to make; each tries to respect the others’ choices.
The book is structured in alternating timelines. We see the younger Charkosky struggling to make sense of her cataclysmic loss, throwing herself into her studies, trying to fit in at a new school while being the girl with no mom. Alongside this storyline, we also follow the adult Charkosky as she weighs her options, waits for nail-biting days and weeks for answers, and tries to shield her husband from what she can while he supports her as much as he is able.
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