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A Perfect Life

✍ Scribed by Pollack, Eileen

Book ID
109214071
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
398 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062419170

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✦ Synopsis

A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love . Ayoung researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal--Valentine's killed her mother, and she and her freewheeling sister, Laurel, could be genetic carriers; each has a fifty percent chance of developing the disease. Having seen firsthand the devastating effect Valentine's had on her parents' marriage, Jane is terrified she might become a burden on whomever she falls in love with and so steers clear of romantic entanglement. Then, the summer before her father's second wedding, Jane falls hard for her future stepbrother, Willie. But Willie's father also died from Valentine's, raising the odds that their love will end in tragedy.

When Willie bolts at a crucial moment in their relationship, Jane becomes obsessed with finding the...

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