Mukerji Uday

Uday Mukerji introduces us to David and we learn through this book, written like an autobiography, what it means to be faced with a genetic disease.

If a parent has a dominant genetic disease, then that person's child has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease.

When David was only 12 years old his dad passed away with Huntington's Disease. HD causes a progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain causing a person's physical and mental deterioration. As such, David's memories of his dad were watching him through a window either bound by his wheelchair or to his bed

David and his girlfriend Chloe both practice medicine. David learns he too is HD positive. Soon after, he dumps Chloe and turns down his dream job of becoming a Heart Surgeon. He decides, instead, to focus his attention on building a barrier for passing diseases onto the next generation.

In pops an old classmate, Jessie, and her son, Lukas, who has hemophilia. And through this book, we see the courage it takes to face a hereditary disease and learn that life is about living in the moment.

I received this thought-provoking novel through the generosity of the author, Uday Mukerji, for an honest review.… (meer)