A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
Named a best book of the year by Amazon, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews

"Poignant. . . Stirring. . . Deeply reported. . . Readers will be rewarded with a detailed look at the high — and all-too-human — stakes of cancer research."—The Washington Post

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical t...