This book explores the author’s experience dealing with Lynch syndrome, a genetic condition in her family that killed her mother at age 30 and that the author and her two siblings had a 50 percent risk of inheriting. She reflects on the loss of her mother and her life since (in which she has become a wife and mother) as well as on her family’s reckonings with the way the syndrome has affected and may still affect their family. One senses from early on that if it were a simple tale in which all three children ultimately got tested and were free and clear of the syndrome, this book would not exist, and yet the uncertainty of the reader as the book moves along mirrors the author’s own uncertainty.. Ultimately it is a hopeful book that does, as the title implies, celebrate life.