PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewIt is this lack of sentiment that, in part, makes The Family Gene both congenial and engaging, despite the long shadow of a broken gene ... The Family Gene is occasionally beset by incorrect explanations of the science ... In the end, [this] stories are less about didactic scientific explanations or transcendent language and more about how human beings respond to immensely challenging ailments that we don’t understand very well if at all.
