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.
This is an emotionally charged narrative about genetic proneness to cancer, the promise of scientific discovery, hope, loss, grief, and, especially, familial love.