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 compare...