Moonrise: One Family, Genetic Identity, and Muscular Dystrophy - Tapa blanda

The mother of a son with muscular dystrophy describes her son's diagnosis and development, the impact of the disease on her world view, the history of the disease, and what she learned about genetics in light of her son's condition. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

"Ansel and his mother may be two of the bravest people I've ever heard of. And I would never have heard of him were it not for a writer who chose to turn the tragic and the personal into something of universal value."
- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

"Wolfson has written a kind of timeless tale---a mother's fierce determination, her struggle for her clearly gifted, special son. This is not a sad book, but a courageous one. And these are ancient themes crafted in a work of literature by a writer who has mastered her voice and given us not just a narrative, but a woven fabric of life."
- Mary Morris, author of Nothing to Declare and Acts of God

"Wolfson doesn't crown herself a hero in the face of Ansel's disease . . . she is truthful, courageous, tenacious, and whip-smart; she is her son's greatest advocate and a narrator to trust and admire."
- PW Daily, Book of the Day

"With this book Penny Wolfson shows herself to be deeply human in every conceivable sense, except one: she writes like an angel."
- Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder