Before My Time
A Memoir of Love and Fate
ISBN-13: 9780345809476
Contributor(s): Ami McKay
Subject: Memoirs
Publisher Imprint: Vintage Canada
Publication Date: 01-04-2021
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£13.99
About the book
In 1895, Ami McKay's great-great aunt, a dressmaker named Pauline Gross, confided to a medical professor that she expected to die young, like many in her family before her. With her help, that doctor launched a family study that eventually led to the identification of the genetic mutation now known as Lynch syndrome, which predisposes its carriers to several types of cancer. In 2001, Ami was among the first to be tested for the syndrome. And now she's written the captivating story of how she, like her mother before her, learned to carry on with joy, with hope, and with a bold hunger for life in the face of an uncertain future.