Long for This World

Description:

Specializing in a rare disease that causes children to age drastically, Dr. Henry Moss is confronted with an ethical dilemma when he meets a family whose two children are affected in dramatically different ways by the same disease.

subjects: Aging,  Austrian Americans,  Fiction,  Genetic disorders in children,  Geneticists,  Prevention,  Sick children,  Suicide victims,  Women immigrants,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, medical,  Seattle (wash.), fiction,  Domestic fiction

Places: Seattle (Wash.)