Condition

<p>In the summer of 1976 during their annual retreat on Cape Cod the McKotch family came apart. Now twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome--a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child--eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife Paulette. Eldest son Billy a successful cardiologist lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen--bright and accomplished but hermetic and emotionally aloof--spurns all social interaction until well into her thirties she falls in love for the first time. With compassion and almost painful astuteness <em>The Condition</em> explores the power of family mythologies--the self-delusions denials and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings. </p>