Pandora's DNA

2015 ALA Notable Book

Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That''s not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark''s relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA, a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora''s DNA, Stark...