The Bright Divide

A diagnosis with no cure fractures a family down to its genes. Judith Townsend, sixty-four-year-old matriarch of a suburban Philadelphia clan, learns she carries Huntington's disease—and that each of her four adult children faces a coin-flip chance of inheriting the same fatal sentence. A surgeon, a devoted mother, a restless entrepreneur, and a newly pregnant professor must each decide whether to confront the truth or flee from it, testing the bonds that hold them together against a threat no amount of love can undo.