Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and the BRCA Gene

An intensely powerful and moving memoir about genetics, mortality, family, femininity, and the author’s battle with cancer

After the grief of losing her mother to cancer when Sarah Gabriel was a teenager, she had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast cancer—the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the B...