Tell how she came to write the book and what a book club had to do with it.

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Engage the group in a The Dressmaker's Mirror game of jeopardy, with questions about genetics, genetics testing, and Jewish life described in the book.

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Discuss the lives of her Jewish family that unknowingly suffered from a deadly mutation across the generations.

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Recount how the new deadly mutation in her family was found and how new disease mutations are being uncovered all the time in people of all ethnicities.

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Explain the importance of genetic testing to save and improve the lives of patients of all ethnicities and their families.

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Detail how to get and interpret a genetic test.

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Share what it was like to come of age as a geneticist before it was common for women to enter science.

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Talk about exciting novel RNA therapeutics being developed for genetic disease.

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Answer questions about the book, genetics, and genetic testing. 

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​Write to Susan at sliebman@unr.edu to arrange for her to speak at your club and/or to receive a free discussion guide that includes thought-provoking questions related to the book. 

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If your club enjoyed:​

Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren

The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese

A Fatal Inheritance: How a family misfortune revealed a deadly medical mystery,  by Lawrence Ingrassia

The Gene: An Intimate History, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

they may also enjoy the Dressmaker's Mirror.

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