The Best 19 Books to Read This August
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
By Carl Zimmer
672 pages;
Dutton
The renowned science writer probes the
history and research behind heredity—a
story filled with palace intrigue and
breathtaking innovation—and imagines a
near future in which men can produce eggs
and sperm, and fetal cells can cure a
mother's cancer.
— Hamilton Cain
Published 07/27/2018
