Title: A perfect life
Description: Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal. Valentine killed her mother, and she and her freewheeling sister, Laurel, could be genetic carriers; each has a fifty percent chance of developing the disease.
Subjects: Fiction, Women biologists, Genetic markers, Families, Genetic disorders, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Massachusetts, Choice