Weaving his own family story with this sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers a tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller.
What emerges from A Fatal Inheritance is an evocative tribute—not to the lofty aspirations of biomedical science but to the fully inhabited lives of Mr. Ingrassia’s family members.
Ingrassia is a brave and honest writer ... In this compassionate book, Ingrassia grants his subjects the dignity of being remembered not only for their deaths, but for their all-too-short lives.
