A review by dayseraph
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max

5.0

I just read this book yesterday in the airport and on the plane. It was very engaging. It's about fatal familial insomnia and mad cow disease and chronic wasting disease and prions and Nobel prizes and scientists and cannibalism. It's also about the mysteries of medicine and how that affects families. Despite the complicated subject matter, I found the book to be very accessable to the non-scientist. It's intriguing and a little bit scary but definitely worth the read.